north carolina turnpike authority
Barry L Mickle new director ops at NC Turnpike PERSONNEL
Posted on Sat, 2010-10-23 15:11
New director of operations at North Carolina Turnpike is Barry L Mickle. He comes from 20 years of operations experience at the New York State Bridge Authority (NYSBA), which operates five toll bridges over the Hudson River north of the Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge.
J J Eden leaving NCDOT/Turnpike Authority for private sector
Posted on Thu, 2010-07-08 21:47
Jim "JJ" Eden, chief operations officer is leaving the North Carolina Turnpike
Authority for a big job in the private sector, we understand. His departure is not related to recent organizational changes in which the Turnpike Authority was merged into the state DOT, but because he got offers the state could not match.
North Carolina Turnpike Authority reduced to legal shell - staff integrated into NCDOT
Posted on Wed, 2010-06-02 11:56
North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) has been subsumed into the state department of transportation. As of this month its staff have been dispersed across the state department of transportation, all answerable to different NCDOT chiefs. David Joyner executive director has lost all his staff except an assistant, we hear.
North Carolina Turnpike go for interoperability buying TransCore's eZGo Anywhere
Posted on Tue, 2010-05-04 10:43
North Carolina Turnpike is making a major move toward toll interoperability with purchase of
transponders and readers that can cater to the sticker tags of the South and the E-ZPass transponders of the north.
North Carolina Turnpike Authority select route for west Charlotte area tollroad
Posted on Sat, 2009-11-21 13:48
A route has been selected for a Gaston East-West Connector, a tollroad planned on the western edge of the greater Charlotte NC area. This is an important step toward completing environmental and planning clearances. The road is also known as Garden Parkway.
North Carolina defers tag & reader choice to mid-Jan but finalizing roadside, back office, ops Nov 15
Posted on Mon, 2009-11-02 21:47
North Carolina Turnpike Authority now envisage making their choice of tag/reader system mid-January, three months later than anticipated. Jim Eden chief operating officer says the procurement - formally "Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) Technology" - is the most difficult and far-reaching, and that they need time to get the decision right.
Kapsch, Mark IV team up in tag/reader bid for N Carolina, TransCore other contender
Posted on Thu, 2009-07-23 09:32
In a quite unexpected development E-ZPass technology giant Mark IV is teaming up with Kapsch, the![]()
European leader in electronic toll collection equipment in a joint proposal fo
North Carolina Turnpike finances Triangle Expressway raising $1010m
Posted on Wed, 2009-07-15 13:30
North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) have financed their first tollroad, the Triangle Expressway, raising $1,010m. Last Friday they executed a federally supported TIFIA loan for $387m, while on Monday and Tuesday they sold $270m of toll revenue bonds and $353m of state appropriation revenue bonds. The appropriations pledged bonds relate to 25m/yr committed from the state treasury for the project.
Fitch rates NCTA Triangle Expressway bonds 'BBB-'
Posted on Tue, 2009-05-26 19:34Fitch are rating North Carolina Turnpike Authority's Triangle Expressway bonds 'BBB-'. They include:
- $211m of Triangle Expressway (TE) current interest revenue bonds![]()
- $84m of TE capital appreciation bonds
- $400m of TIFIA debt
Interoperability stressed in North Carolina's RFP for Triangle Expressway toll system
Posted on Fri, 2009-05-22 16:59
North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) have issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for an electronic toll collection (ETC) system with
heavy emphasis on interoperabillity.
