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At the Maine Turnpike Authority they hope to file a response to the Feds' questions about the proposed new York Toll Plaza by about mid-April, spokesman Scott Tompkins tells us. Jay Clement of the US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE)  and project manager for federal permitting wrote to the Turnpike May 5 2010 rejecting their Phase 1 screening of alternatives for the controversial toll plaza relocation/rebuild at the Turnpike's busy southern end.

Illinois DOT is advertising two consultant projects to conduct planning and permitting studies to build the Illiana Expressway, planned as a new east-west route in both Illinois and Indiana on the southern and southeast fringe of the Chicago metro area.  The first job is described as a Prime Consultant and the second as a Project Manager Consultant, both to work on what they call a "Tiered Environmental Impact Statement" for the 60 mile, 100km long, approx

Federal regulators have - as expected - refused to accept the Maine Turnpike's Phase 2 proposed short list of alternatives for a new toll plaza near York by the southern end of the Turnpike.

The Maine Turnpike Authority this week voted unanimously at their monthly board meeting this week to seek US government permits for a wide new mainline toll plaza with open road tolling (ORT) down the middle, but retaining cash collection to either side.

Detroit's battle of the bridges took a new turn today with the US Government putting on hold the permitting of a new Ambassador bridge between Detroit and Windsor.

The Federal Highway Administration is urging the US Secretary of Commerce to override a state coastal commission's bar to the Foothill South Toll Road (FSTR) in southern Orange County California.

Federal and state agencies continue to grant Orange County's Transportation Corridors Agencies (TCA) remaining permits for the Foothill South 241 Toll Road. Only remaining obstacle is a US Commerce department decision needed to override a radical environmentalist dominated California Coastal Commission effort to block the southern end of the project where it joins I-