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MTA Bridges and Tunnels (MTAB&T) in New York is joining the list of US toll authorities planning or studying going cashless. Later this year the New York toller will commission a study on the feasibility of replacing cash collection with video. The news was a single sentence in a long prepared speech by MTA chief executive Elliot Sander titled "The State of the MTA" at Cooper Union on the authority's 40th anniversary:  read more »

Central Texas RMA, operator of the 183A tollroad northwest of Austin TX is moving to implement video tolling, as a first step toward giving up cash collection. They expect to begin sending out video toll bills in March or April. Cash collection will continue for now.

The move to video tolling was endorsed by the board of directors of the CTRMA today.
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South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA) have decided to hold off on detailed engineering design work on modernizing their Egg Harbor mainline toll plaza (Mile Marker 17) in order to study cashless all electronic tolling (AET) for their Atlantic City Expressway. 846 words  read more »

North Carolina Turnpike Authority's board of directors has approved a staff recommendation that they do all electronic tolling (AET). This enables them to save $60m in capital costs on their first project, the $850m Triangle Expressway in Raleigh due to begin construction next year. The staff report also said there are safety advantages in not having some motorists peel off to stop and pay cash, then have to accelerate and merge back into the highway speed traffic.
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The Wall Street Journal oped page today (2007-11-05 pA18) carries a piece by Bob Poole urging tollers in America to completely do away with toll booths and go all electronic. He is confident private sector tollers can be counted on to "put their customers' interest first, by eliminating cash tolling. He adds: "Since most U.S. 2645 words  read more »

Toll booth manufacturers: the trend looks grim. Another toll agency looks like going cashless. North Carolina Turnpike Authority is rethinking conceptual designs providing the modern US standard toll format of open road electronic tolling down the middle and cash toll booths at the sides (mainline plazas) with separate coin machine and cash lanes at the ramp toll points. But they are now wondering whether they should collect cash at all - and go all electronic.
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E470 may be the second established US toll system after Texas' NTTA to do away with cash toll collection. The board of the E470 Public Highway Authority (E470PHA) Sept 13 heard a proposal from staff for a move to all-electronic tolling (AET). Wilbur Smith Associates will produce a report by December.
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Ireland's National Roads Authority has awarded a $147m (E113m@$1.3) contract to a Sanef(80%)-CS(20%) subsidiary BetEire to install and operate 2x3 lanes of no-cash highway speed electronic tolling on the M50 beltway around Dublin.  read more »