gates

American Roads Investments (ARI) is rolling out a mobile telephone application designed for convenient toll payment at gated toll facilities. To pay tolls with your mobile/cell phone you download the application - FreedomPassMobile (r) - and install it in either an Apple iPhone or an Android.

West Virginia Turnpike authority has taken delivery of four emergency median barrier gates. They will be installed in a mountainous stretch of the Turnpike where interchanges and access are distant. The purchase follows a furore over some hundreds of motorists trapped in their cars for up to 24 hours during the pre-Christmas blizzard and some 40 inches (1m) of snow in ten hours. Traffic was backed up for miles by tractor-trailers jack-knifing on ice and multiple rear-ender collisions.