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Apple is amazing, awesome, inspiring - will they do transponders, and sell road pricing?


If like us you find following government and politics and the economy and international affairs and the weather too depressing, then there's one thing happening that should give you a lift - Apple computer. Truly awe inspiring is how this company manages in the midst of a deep recession to succeed in selling stupendous quantities of great products - 250m iPhones it has now sold - and earns revenues of $60b/year.

Penn Pike resignation from IBTTA recognized very quietly - name dropped from list


Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's resignation from IBTTA has been quietly acknowledged by the trade association by removing its name from the official membership list. (see nearby)

However there has been no comment by IBTTA, and no other acknowledgement of the departure of one of the oldest and longest standing members of the established industry trade association.

Stunned reaction to Penn Pike's blow to IBTTA (ADDITIONS)


Shock and awe were the main reactions we picked up Friday to the news that the Pennsylvania Turnpike had departed in protest from IBTTA the toll industry's long established and generally well-regarded trade association.

Penn Pike departs IBTTA to form American Public Toll Assoc


The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is withdrawing from the International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) on the grounds it has been leaning too much toward private and international toll operators. Turnpike chief executive Joseph Brimmeier tells us he and other US public toll authorities will be forming a new American Association of Public Toll Roads.

US Sec Mary Peters calls for end to cash tolling by 2014, discussion of $-crisis at IBTTA


US secretary of transportation Mary Peters this week called for the toll industry association IBTTA to work for the elimination of all toll booths in the US by 2014. The last ones "should be sent to the Smithsonian (Museum)," she said.

Toll roads 36% safer than tax roads - IBTTA study


Tollroads are 36% safer than free roads according to data published by Jeff Campbell in an article "Toll vs Nontoll: Toll facilities are safer" which will appear in the next issue of the IBTTA journal TOLLWAYS. Campbell is the research manager at IBTTA.

Penn Pike's Joe Brimmeier assailed for eating it up (EDITORIAL)


There is some journalism school somewhere where they teach a "tollroad-execs-living-it-up-at-your-expense" formula story because you see the identical thing pop up all over the place, year after year in print, TV, radio and on the web - just the names, the meal menus, and the money are different.

The suspicious thing about these reports is that the toll industry's trade association IBTTA always gets a priceless plug  for running lap o' luxury, party-time events in exotic locales.

Maine Turnpike trip to Vienna IBTTA generates a story at home but the Turnpike got it out first


Type 'Maine Turnpike' and 'Vienna' in a Google search box and you'll see that the Turnpike delegation of five attending the IBTTA annual conference in Vienna is big news back home. The list of stories goes on for several pages. Most of them are variants of an AP story by Francis X Quinn though one or two others picked up on it separately.

IBTTA awards fiasco


IBTTA awards fiasco

Originally published in issue 52 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Nov 2000.

Page:15

Subjects:fiasco awards

Agencies:IBTTA

IBTTA COMMENT:“You have it wrong”


IBTTA COMMENT:“You have it wrong”

Originally published in issue 43 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Oct 1999.

Page:6

Subjects:comments IBTTA

Agencies:IBTTA

Sources:NEIL SCHUSTER

IBTTA $$$$$$$$$s


IBTTA $$$$$$$$$s

Originally published in issue 42 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 1999.

Page:24

Subjects:silliness credit

Agencies:IBTTA

EDITORIAL:IBTTA slack on policy


EDITORIAL:IBTTA slack on policy

Originally published in issue 42 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 1999.

Page:1

Subjects:toll policy philsophy politics

Agencies:IBTTA

CONFERENCE DIGS:The Montagu, Houston TX


CONFERENCE DIGS:The Montagu, Houston TX

Originally published in issue 32 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Oct 1998.

Page:16

Subjects:IBTTA accomodations

Locations:Houston TX

MARKETING & PR Alternative Milestones


MARKETING & PR Alternative Milestones

Originally published in issue 31 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Sep 1998.

Page:16

Subjects:Milestones

Agencies:IBTTA

MARKETING & PR

Alternative Milestones

FREE PLUG:IBTTA in Houston


FREE PLUG:IBTTA in Houston

Originally published in issue 30 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Aug 1998.

Page:15

Subjects:IBTTA conference

Agencies:IBTTA

SOUND BITE SUGGESTION


SOUND BITE SUGGESTION

Originally published in issue 22 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Dec 1997.

Page:11

Subjects:politics of tolling

Agencies:IBTTA

Sources:IBTTA

There are no free roads. There is a toll road , or there is a taxing road, or there is no road.

WORDS Toll, fare, or road payment


WORDS Toll, fare, or road payment

Originally published in issue 21 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Nov 1997.

Page:16

Subjects:words toll fare IBTTA WTA semantics

Agencies:IBTTA

WORDS

Toll, fare, or road payment

IBTTA


IBTTA ‘junket’ in Rome

Originally published in issue 9 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Nov 1996.

Page:1

Subjects:IBTTA

Agencies:IBTTA

Locations:Rome

IBTTA in Rome

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