Brightline Rail Extension to Orlando Open for Business
In June, Brightline celebrated the opening of its 170-mile extension project, bringing their Florida high speed rail service to Orlando and Orlando International Airport.
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Preferred Bidder for Calcasieu River Bridge P3 in Louisiana
A preferred bidder for the long-awaited I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge replacement project was finally selected in July. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced that the state was selecting Calcasieu Bridge Partners (CBP) for final negotiations for the bridge replacement P3. Construction on the project is slated to begin next year and is expected to last […]
Fixing Misleading Toll Road Metrics: It’s About Time
In September 2022 we published a research paper which critically examined a value for money benchmarking metric used throughout the toll road sector by policy makers, planners, consultants, rating agencies and financiers – and often quoted by the media; cents per mile. We developed and applied an alternative approach, focused instead on cents per minute […]
VDoT Begins Planning for Additional Beltway Managed Lanes Extension
In December, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDoT) announced that it would begin an environmental study for an extension of the state’s managed lanes along and additional 11-mile stretch of the beltway.
Another Make-or-Break BPW Vote for the Purple Line in January
Another month, another make-or-break vote for the Purple Line. At the upcoming meeting of the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW), scheduled for 26 January, the BPW will decide whether or not to approve the Purple Line’s updated P3 agreement, which will include a new design-build contract.
Alabama I-10 Bridge Project Revived, P3 Still Dead
Alabama is the latest state to see a cancelled P3 showing signs of new life. Public officials approved a toll framework to revive the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project, just a few years after cancelling a P3 procurement to deliver the project post-qualifications.
PennDoT Major Bridges Blocking Legislation Passes House, Local Counties Sue To Block Tolls
A legislative attempt to block PennDoT’s Major Bridges P3, or at least the tolls that would fund the program, advanced through the House last month and is likely to come down to the wire. The blocking legislation has already passed the state Senate but faces a veto from Governor Tom Wolf. The legislation is currently […]
MD OP Lanes Toll Rates Approved, SDEIS Comment Period Ends
The Maryland managed lanes project passed a few milestones in November. First, the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Board approved toll rates for the state’s OP Lanes managed lanes project, advancing the project’s proposed economics after a long public comment period. The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDoT) also closed the comment period for its Supplemental Draft […]
Texas North Tarrant Express 3C, Delivered
The final phase of the North Tarrant Expressway concession, Segment 3C, officially opened for traffic on June 20th. The delivery completed roughly 14 years of managed lanes-funded development in the region. The North Tarrant Express system has already become a bit of an exemplar for other planned and developed express lanes systems in the United […]
The War for Pleasure Island: Alabama Bridge Gets Injunction
In infrastructure politics, battles over toll bridges are about as strange and dramatic as they get, and beautiful coastal Alabama has been the site of quite a battle over the last decade or so. It reached a crescendo in May, when Alabama Circuit Judge Jimmy B. Pool issued a preliminary injunction to block the construction […]