NTTA Expansion Program
ASCE January Luncheon Meeting
Delivering Mobility
Gerry Carrigan
Assistant Executive Director of Project Delivery
North Texas Tollway Authority
August 20, 2009
Who We Are – History
 Origins with TTA
 Created in 1997 as a
Texas political
subdivision
 No tax revenue
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Who We Are – Governance
Typical double photo use
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 1968-1997 - TTA
Approx. 124 lane miles
 1997-Present - NTTA
Approx. 655 lane miles
 Being constructed or final planning
Nearly 250 lane miles
 In early design and planning stages
About 204 lane miles
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By the Numbers
 Total TollTags® issued

More than 1.7 million
 Projected annual revenue - 2009
Approx. $ 298.6 million
 Average daily TollTag® transactions
1.3 million
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Cooperative Partnerships
Supports regional growth
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Economic Development
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Regional Plan
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DALLAS NORTH
TOLLWAY 4B & 5A
STUDY AREA
DALLAS NORTH
Length-TBD
4A
SAMTOLLWAY
RAYBURNPHASE
TOLLWAY
Segment
3S
Est. open to traffic-TBD
Approx.
6 miles
SAM RAYBURN
North
of Hillcrest
Rd. to
Est.
open
to traffic-TBD
TOLLWAY/DALLAS
south
Custer
Rd.
NORTH
TOLLWAY
STATE HIGHWAY 170 Opened
INTERCHANGE
to traffic
Approx. 11.8 milesEst.
open to 1,
traffic-2012
September
2009
Est. open to traffic-TBD
SAM RAYBURN TOLLWAY
SAM RAYBURN TOLLWAY
Segment 3N
LLTB Bridge
Segment
4
South of Custer Rd. to
Opened to traffic
Approx.
2.9
miles
North of Hardin
August 1, 2009
Est. open to traffic-2011
Opened to traffic
September 29, 2009
PRESIDENT GEORGE
BUSH TURNPIKE
EASTERN EXTENSION
Approx. 9.9 miles
Est. open to traffic-2011
President George Bush
All-ETC
STATE
HIGHWAY
161Turnpike
STATE
HIGHWAY
161
Conversion
Phase
2 (TxDOT)
Approx.
7.4 miles
TwoEst.
main
lanes
eachOpened to traffic
open to traffic-2012
TRINITY PARKWAY
direction from SH 183 July 1, 2009
Approx. 9 miles
to Egyptian Way
open to360
traffic-TBD
SOUTHWEST
Opened
to traffic PARKWAY STATEEst.
HIGHWAY
TRAIL
August 2,CHISHOLM
2009
Section 1-Approx. 9.7 miles
PARKWAY
Approx. 27.7 miles Sections 2 & 3 Length-TBD
Est. open to traffic-TBD Est. open to traffic-TBD
REGIONAL OUTER
LOOP
STATE HIGHWAY 190
EAST BRANCH
Approx. 11 miles
Est. open to traffic-TBD
2009 Mobility
Progress
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Project Costs
Project
Estimated Project
Cost
Sam Rayburn Tollway
$639 million
Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge
$122 million
Southwest Parkway & Chisholm Trail
$1.3 billion
State Highway 161
$640 million
President George Bush Turnpike Eastern
Extension
$610 million
Dallas North Tollway
Phase 3
$264 million
Total
$3.6 billion
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Toll Rate Increase
• Reasons to adjust rates
–Meet revenue and coverage targets
• Bond holder’s confidence in Authority
–Implement distance based toll rates
–Adopt toll policy consistent with RTC regional toll policy
• 14.5 cents/mile in 2010
• 2.75% annual compounding rate
• Resets every two years
–User equity throughout system
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Tolls Support
Bond Sales: Expansion
• Latest Bonds
– Priced on Monday, August 3, 2009
– Financial close on Wednesday, August 12, 2009
• Successfully sold $1,421,475,000 NTTA
Revenue Bonds
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2010 Focus
• ETC conversion- fully cashless system
• SH161
– Finance and construction
• SWP and Chisholm Trail
– Finance and construction
• Continued Construction
– SRT
– PGBT Eastern Extension
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All-ETC Conversion
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All-ETC Conversion
Final Steps
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SRT – Segment 5
and Upcoming Items
 DNT/SRT interchange
• 4th Quarter 2009
 Construction lettings
– DNT/SRT interchange
» Engineers estimate- $108M
» Low Bid at $79M (Williams Bros.)
• Segments 1-3 landscaping
 Segment 5 planned opening January 2012
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SH 161 – Phase 4
Design-Build construction
– Approximately 6.5 miles
– 2 major interchanges:
• IH 30 and IH 20
– 2 main lanes in each
direction
– 11 gantries
• 1 main lane gantry
• 10 ramp gantries
– September 2012 opening
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SH 161 – Phase 4
Design-Build
Prairie Link Constructors, LLC
– Base Price:
$414,154,692
• ~12% lower than next lowest proposal
• ~17% lower than engineer's estimate
– Value-added concepts (VAC) - optional
• VAC-002: Anti-graffiti coating:
$1,865,057
• VAC-006: On-the-job training:
$0
– Combined cost not to exceed: $416,019,749
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Southwest Parkway/
Chisholm Trail
 North segment (Tarrant County)
– Limits: IH 30 to Altamesa Blvd.
– Length: 8.74 miles
– Six lane all-ETC toll road
 South segment (Tarrant County)
– Limits: Altamesa Blvd. to
FM 1187
– Length: 5.82 miles
– Four lane all-ETC toll road
 Chisholm Trail (Johnson County)
– Limits: FM 1187 to U.S. 67
– Length: 13.01 miles
– Four lane all-ETC toll road
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Stimulus Funds
 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(ARRA)
– $787 billion stimulus bill
 Infrastructure Funding
– $150 billion total
– $27.5 billion highways, bridges
• 3% transportation enhancement projects/30% local MPOs/67% to state DOTs
– State stimulus funding distribution same as gas tax monies
– No local match required
 Texas
– 8.44% of $27.5 billion highway, bridge funding
– Funding allocation – total $2.25 billion
• $675,004,544 local MPOs - regional priority projects
• $1,507,510,148 TTC - state priority projects
• $67,500,454 transportation enhancement projects
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ARRA – Section 3A
IH 20 / SWP History
March 2009
– TTC & RTC allocated $133.9M
• Build IH 20 / SH 183 / SWP
interchange
• Funds 40% of total cost
– NTTA plan repackaging effort
• TxDOT and Fort Worth assisted
• Focus was local access
improvements
– Bid documents developed
• NTTA, TxDOT, Fort Worth
– Project agreement being
developed
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Annual Program
Expenditures
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Questions
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