legislation
MO/I-70 tolls plan blocked by special interest lobbies - truckers, roadside stores
By Peter Samuel on April 24, 2012
Missouri senator Mike Kehoe (Repub, Jefferson City) who sponsored the bill (SB752) to allow tolls on I-70
says it is effectively blocked in the state senate transport committee. He is quoted in the StLouis Post Dispatch he'd most surprised fit he bill moves further this year.
China welcomes investor tollroads while Texas shuts the door
By Peter Samuel on July 3, 2009
July 2 2009 should be recorded as an important date in tollroad history. It was the day Chinese
regulators gave the green light to Sichuan Expressway Company's Initial Private Offering (IPO) of shares in Shanghai, while in Texas, USA the legislature adjourned for 18 months slamming the door on investor pikes.
Global P3 advisers say Bingaman-Grassley bills would end US market for tollroad concessions
By Peter Samuel on May 5, 2009
Allen & Overy, a major international law firm say in a commentary that US Senate bills 884 and 885 would "compound the capital starvation of the US transportation network" and could "end the US market for tollroad P3s" (public private partnerships, also known as longterm leases, or concessions). They say S884 titled the "Transportation Equity for All Americans Act" (S.
LA gets legislative OK to take NYC's $210m for dynamic priced lanes I-10, I-110
By Peter Samuel on September 4, 2008
California's legislators left it right up until the deadline but when they finally voted it was with clear majorities to go with tolling on the busiest carpool lanes in the LA area. They get around $210m of federal funds originally reserved for New York City central area pricing. To be tolled under the plan are carpool lanes in the center of the I-10 and the I-110.
Dulles Greenway gets advantageous new concession regulation
By Peter Samuel on March 17, 2008
The Dulles Greenway is getting advantageous new arrangements for regulation of its concession that are a rebuff to oppoents. Activists have been trying to freeze toll rates and give regulators arbitrary powers. Under a new bill HB1140 the operators of the privately built tollroad in northern Virginia get to increase their tolls up to amounts already approved by regulators through 2012. The Greenway runs 23km (14 miles between Dulles and Leesburg VA.
Texas Gov Perry signs 792, says all tollroads will proceed
By Peter Samuel on June 13, 2007In a statement about the bill Perry said:
Killer clause in Texas bill bans early termination refund based on future toll revenues
By Peter Samuel on May 3, 2007Virginia bill gives tolling power to two regions
By Peter Samuel on April 10, 2007Major focus in the mainstream media coverage has been the bill's increases in taxes, although tolls offer far greater potential for raising new revenue that the rather minor proposed increases the tax on motor vehicle insurance premiums and in the state diesel fuel tax.
