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Joe Brimmeier dodges debate with lease rep & new anti-PTC website
Posted Mon, 2008-06-23 17:18Turnpike Commission CEO Joe Brimmeier has declined a challenge from the lease representative Jim Courtovich to debate the lease in public forums.
He said in a hand delivered letter to Pennsylvania Transportation Partners that he wouldn't debate because the state legislature would decide the issue.
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Penn Pike Commission supporters fail in move to force vote on lease in legislature
Posted Wed, 2008-06-18 18:47Turnpike Commission supporters in the Pennsylvania legislature made an odd
move Wednesday - introducing a measure which if passed would have instructed the Governor and state ("Commonwealth") officials to execute the Concession and Lease Agreement announced May 19th. The move was easily defeated by 185 to 12.
See a text nearby.
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Eight in bidding for Alligator Alley lease in Florida
Posted Fri, 2008-06-06 07:41
Eight firms submitted qualifications in the first stage of a longterm lease of the 125km (78 mile) I-75 east-west tollroad from the Miami area to Naples Florida.
The eight are:
- OHL-Carlyle
- Abertis
- Atlantia (formerly Autostada) & ETC
- Brisa-CCR-JPMorgan
- Macquarie
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House-$s chairman Dwight Evans sponsors bill to lease Pennsylvania Turnpike
Posted Thu, 2008-06-05 07:06
Support for a lease of the Pennsylvania Turnpike has surfaced with the announcement that two influential politicians are sponsoring enabling legislation - House Appropriations Chairman Dwight Evans, a long serving Democrat representative from the northern part of Philadlephia, and Republican Appropriations Committee member Steve Cappelli, who represents the Williamsport area just north of I-80.
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PA Gov Rendell accepts that legislature won't consider enabling legislation for Turnpike lease until the fall
Posted Wed, 2008-06-04 08:14Pennsylvania Governor Rendell has accepted that the state legislature won't consider enabling legislation in time to accept the legally binding Abertis-Citi bid of $12.8b which expires June 20. He told reporters
yesterday: "There isn't enough time (this month) to have the General Assembly review the Turnpike lease."
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Penn Pike concessionaire would move cautiously to all-electronic tolling
Posted Mon, 2008-06-02 18:07
Jordi Graells managing director of Abertis the majority equity holder in the Abertis-Cit partnership selected by the Governor of Pennsylvania for a longterm lease of the Pennsylvania Turnpike said today they will be moving very cautiously on all-electronic tolling. At a minimum he said it would be ten years.
All-electronic tolling (AET), also called 'cashless' would eliminate all toll collector jobs.
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US sec Mary Peters expresses strong support for Penn Pike lease concession
Posted Wed, 2008-05-28 12:13US secretary of transportation Mary Peters has expressed enthusiasm for the $12.8b Abertis/Citi proposal for a longterm lease concession of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It appears on Fast Lane", the official Blog of the Secretary: see http://fastlane.dot.gov/, scroll down to May 20:
Peters writes, and we reproduce it in full:
"Pennsylvania Receives Largest Ever Transportation Private Investment Bid
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Abertis and Goldman Sachs-Transurban the two final bidders for Penn Pike concession -Wall Street Journal "Marketwatch"
Posted Thu, 2008-05-15 11:53The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch service is reporting that groups led by Abertis and
Goldman Sachs are the only two remaining bidders for the 75 year lease concession on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The third group comprising Cintra and Macquarie - two of the most aggressive bidders in past concession procurements - are out.
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Cintra Macquarie out of bidding for Penn Pike
Posted Tue, 2008-05-13 11:09Cintra and Macquarie one of the three known teams bidding for the Pennsylvania Turnpike lease have dropped out of the bidding. They have told their bankers they are free to work with the remaining bidders on the best and final offers due this Friday.
Cintra and Macquarie said they weren't prepared to increase their bid, so they won't be making any Best And Final Offer.
"They told us the numbers didn't cut it," one of the bankers said.
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Talk that Macquarie has dropped out of bidding for Penn Pike
Posted Mon, 2008-05-12 16:30
There's talk that Macquarie is not in the bidding for the lease concession on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Two sources have said TOLLROADSnews was wrong in including Macquarie among the active bidders.
So far as we can establish we are right. We're assured Macquarie is still in, though no one is talking for attribution.
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Bids for Pennsylvania Turnpike within 10% triggering BAFOs - Gov Rendell
Posted Mon, 2008-05-12 09:33Pennsylvania received bids for the 75 year Turnpike lease concession last Friday but there was a bid within 10% of the top bid triggering another week for best
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WSJ says two bids submitted for Penn Pike - Rendell effort a flop?
Posted Sun, 2008-05-11 22:41
The Wall Street Journal reports that two bids have been submitted for the 75 year toll concession on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It says the bids have been made by Abertis and a Cintra-Macquarie partnership.
We don't have any confirmation or refutation of this report.
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Penn Turnpike Commission's implicit concession bid is $5.3b - below half expected top private sector bid
Posted Thu, 2008-05-08 20:00
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's implicit bid in the state's lease concession procurement is $5.3b, versus a likely top bid by private sector bidders in the range $9b to $13b. The $5.3b implicit bid is cited by the Commonwealth Foundation thinktank in Harrisburg today.
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Penn Pike lease/concession end of week deadline
Posted Mon, 2008-05-05 12:09
Pennsylvania DOT has set a new deadline for bids on the Pennsylvania Turnpike concession at the end of this week. But while there is a real intention on the part of the state to make the new deadline stick it may slip again like last week's, according to people who can only be characterized as insiders.
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Details of Pennsylvania Turnpike lease announced - bids by end April
Posted Wed, 2008-04-16 11:55By October or November "America's First Superhighway" over 800km (500 miles) of storied tollroad
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Pennsylvania DOT signs 50 year lease for Penn Pike to toll I-80
Posted Tue, 2007-10-16 12:40
Pennsylvania DOT (PennDOT) and the Turnpike Commission announced today in a joint press release they have signed the 50 year lease agreement for tolling I-80 as provided for by state Act 44. The second sentence of the press release states: "Under Act 44, the commission will transfer $83.3 billion to PennDOT for transportation projects throughout the state (over the 50 years of the lease)."
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NJ toll concession proposal delayed by Corzine crash - transport chief
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