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English Swinford toll bridge buyer kept confidential pending financial close
Posted on Tue, 2009-12-08 01:46The new owner of the Swinford toll bridge near Oxford England won't be officially revealed until financial close, according to the auctioneer Neil Mackilligin. All Mackilligan will say is that the buyer is a UK-based individual, who is not local to the area.
Bidding with a crowd of 700 people at Alsop's auction house in London December 3 began at pd800k ($1.28m) and the high bid was pd1.08m ($1.73m).
Chesapeake VA accepts $100m private toll bridge proposal on Elizabeth River
Posted on Thu, 2009-01-29 01:52
Chesapeake City Council voted Tuesday evening (Jan 27) to accept a private venture proposal to build a approx-$100m high level toll bridge over the Elizabeth River between South Norfolk and Portsmouth in the Norfolk/Hampton Roads metro area.
Margate Bridge NJ raising cash tolls 50%, card tolls 25%
Posted on Tue, 2009-01-06 01:24
Margate Bridge Company in Margate NJ raised its tolls today. Frequent users who buy a proximity card with credits for 100 car trips will now pay $1.00 a trip compared to 80c previously, and cash payers will fork over $1.50 compared to $1.00 before. An official statement (see in full at end) cites high costs of maintenance of the near 80 year old bridge as rationale for the toll increases.
Manatee County FL negotiating Ft Hamer toll bridge with developers
Posted on Sun, 2008-10-26 23:31
Nothing stimulates local self-help like a "No, sorry, we can't help" from on high. After Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE) recently told Manatee County on the west coast that it can't build the Fort Hamer Bridge the county commissioners only took days to decide to go it alone. A decade of lobbying for FDOT and the feds to fund a bridge had gone nowhere. The state Turnpike was the last hope of help from higher levels of government.
NY Times had it right then
Posted on Mon, 2000-11-20 21:02NY Times had it right then
Originally published in issue 52 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Nov 2000.
Page:13
Subjects:subway subsidies private
Facilities:Mew York subways
Agencies:New York Times NYT
Locations:New York NY
Ogden UT Pike Abuilding
Posted on Sun, 1999-10-03 23:35Ogden UT Pike Abuilding
Originally published in issue 43 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Oct 1999.
Page:1
Subjects:new private pike
Facilities:Adams Avenue Turnpike
Agencies:Adams Avenue Turnpike Company
Locations:Ogden UT
Sources:Stevens
Chesapeake VA 168-S City Dumps PB Joint Venture to Go Toll Alone
Posted on Fri, 1999-02-05 21:35Chesapeake VA 168-S City Dumps PB Joint Venture to Go Toll Alone
Originally published in issue 36 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Feb 1999.
Page:5
Subjects:new toll road council public versus private Schuster TEA21 money
Facilities:Chesapeake Expressway VA168-S
Agencies:City of Chesapeake PB
Locations:Chesapeake VA
Sources:Anne Odell Jay Tate
GA Bill for private pikes
Posted on Tue, 1998-03-24 15:56GA Bill for private pikes
Originally published in issue 25 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Mar 1998.
Page:15
Subjects:private toll roads
Facilities:Johnson Ferry Road
Agencies:United Toll Systems UTS
Locations:GA
GA
Bill for private pikes
KOREA:Dense toll motorway network planned
Posted on Sun, 1997-07-13 21:00KOREA:Dense toll motorway network planned
Originally published in issue 17 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in Jul 1997.
Page:7
Facilities:private
Locations:Korea
