Media Coverage

ITS-NY Announces 2011 Project of the Year Winners
June 13, 2011 (www.marketwire.com)

New York State Thruway's Woodbury Toll Barrier -- Highway Speed E-ZPass - Outstanding Project of the Year in Roadway Management
The New York State Thruway, Henningson, Durham & Richardson, Inc., Greenman Pedersen, Inc., MJ Engineering and Land Surveying, P.C., JHK/TransCore, Foit Albert Associates, Yonkers Contracting Company, Inc., The LiRo Group, and Kapsch TrafficCom implemented Open Road Tolling at the Thruway's Woodbury Plaza. For the first time, E-ZPass customers, including commercial vehicles, can travel from the Tappan Zee Bridge toll barrier on the Hudson River to the Williamsville toll barrier just east of Buffalo without stopping or slowing down.

Woodbury Toll Barrier Highway Speed E-ZPass Named Outstanding Project of the Year by ITS New York
June 13, 2011 (www.readmedia.com)

The New York State Thruway Authority was honored for the Woodbury Toll Barrier Highway Speed E-ZPass Project at the recent Intelligent Transportation Systems-New York 18th Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition. The Thruway Authority and their project team members received a plaque for the Outstanding Intelligent Transportation Systems Project of the Year in the Roadway Management Category at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs. The winning projects highlighted the use of ITS technologies to improve the mobility and safety of New York State travelers, improve efficiency of the state transportation network, and provide positive environmental benefits to New York.