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Marc Lemon a specialist in transportation law and PPPs, and former chief counsel at the Federal Highway Administration in the Bush administration has been recruited to work at the Washington DC law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge.

William Capone, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has sent us a two page letter in response to our report (link) of comments by Marc Lemon chief counsel of the Federal Highway Administration in 2008 on the I-80 tolling application. The letter contests Lemon's theme that the Turnpike Commission ignored advice FHWA gave on what was legally required in the application to allow FHWA to give a favorable ruling.

Marcus J Lemon chief counsel at FHWA through 2008 says he and other federal officials repeatedly told their counterparts at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission they needed more substantial and impartial consulting studies to justify a federal permit to toll I-80.

by Marcus J. Lemon

On June 18, 2009, the leaders of the House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee published a blueprint of their proposed $450 billion six-year reauthorization of the federal surface transportation program. 

Bent Flyvbjerg, the world's premier researcher and writer on megaprojects and traffic and revenue methodologies is moving closer to the world's financial center of gravity - from Copenhagen to about midway between London and New York, namely Oxford England.