Tag: toll revenue

Roadbuilding

Rhode Island will spend $223.4 million on maintenance of 4 Narragansett Bay bridges

The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority (RITBA) Board approved a 10-year $223.4 million spending plan, approximately $22 million per year, for the maintenance of the four Narragansett Bay bridges—the Newport Pell Bridge, the Mount Hope Bridge, the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge, and the Sakonnet River Bridge, the Providence Journal reports. The Pell Bridge will receive approximately $116 million, more than […]

August 16, 2016

Roadbuilding

U.S. toll industry expected to be stable in 2014

Moody’s Investors Services announced Wednesday that it has updated its 2014 outlook on the U.S. toll industry, changing its outlook to stable from negative in its report “2014 Outlook — US Toll Roads.” The negative outlook comes from the company’s research on traffic growth on toll roads as well as toll revenue. Moody’s says the […]

December 4, 2013

Roadbuilding

IBTTA Executive Director, CEO Patrick Jones calls for tolls as means to relieve congestion

Patrick Jones, executive director & CEO of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA), this week pointed to tolling as a solution to traffic congestion. At the U.S. Travel Association’s Connecting America Through Travel Conference in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Jones called on the travel industry to embrace tolling as a means to relieve […]

November 22, 2013

Roadbuilding

Trucking group sues New York Thruway Authority for misusing toll revenues

A group of trucking advocates has sued the New York State Thruway Authority for using toll revenues to fund canal maintenance, our sister site, Overdrive, reports. The American Trucking Association (ATA) filed a class-action suit on November 14. The association is seeking relief for affected ATA members, four New York trucking companies and other truckers. […]

November 19, 2013