JULY 2006


Tolls buy extra dimension of safety on the road Check your clock. What time is it? In a darkened room, monitor screens flicker with images captured by about 450 cameras all over the NTTA System. If a mattress falls off a truck, or an accident happens, or someone’s car overheats, the Command Center will know. And even better – it will send someone to help. Read more		More than just a facelift for the DNT gateway to downtown Dallas Those who have traveled through the southern gateway of the Dallas North Tollway have noticed that one, sometimes two, lanes are closed in each direction and signs are posted for a construction zone.“Basically, we are replacing a 40-year-old toll road,” says Mark Bouma, director of Engineering for the North Texas Tollway Authority. Read more


The NTTA has won one international award and two statewide awards in recent weeks The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association’s “Toll Excellence Award” recognized the agency’s outstanding customer service programs and procedures under the direction of Clayton Howe. The Texas Chapter of the American Public Works Association last week presented two prestigious awards to the North Texas Tollway Authority. Both recognized outstanding performance by the agency’s Maintenance Department under the direction of J.C. Wood Jr., P.E. Read more		Water conservation measures on the President George Bush Turnpike As we are about to enter the “dog days” of summer with little or no rainfall and triple digit temperatures, water conservation is on the minds of everyone. Each city through which the President George Bush Turnpike traverses has implemented various water/drought conservation measures. Read more


SH 121 Project Main lanes on State Highway 121 in Denton County will soon open as a toll road but not an NTTA toll road. It will be operated by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and there will be some differences in the way you are charged. Yes, eventually, your TollTag will work on that toll road, but TxDOT plans to open the road in early July as a free roadway. As we receive more detailed information from TxDOT, we will continue to communicate with all of you, our more than one million TollTag customers. The initial toll collection system is likely to involve license plate recognition technology as the means of identifying vehicles on the road. In order for your TollTag accounts to be properly charged, you need to be certain that license plate numbers on your TollTag accounts are correct. Please contact us within the next 45 days to ensure that the license plate numbers listed on your accounts are correct. To update your license plate number(s), simply call us at 972-818-NTTA (6882) or go online at www.ntta.org.


NTTA Projects		NTTA Roadways
Addison Airport Toll Tunnel Dallas North Tollway Mountain Creek Lake Bridge The President George Bush Turnpike		The Dallas North Tollway Extension: Phase 3 (SH 121 to US 380) The Dallas North Tollway Extension: Phase 4 (US 380 to Collin/Grayson County Line) Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge (LLTB) The President George Bush Turnpike: Eastern Extension Southwest Parkway (SH 121 from IH 30 to Altamesa Blvd.) Trinity Parkway