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PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH TURNPIKE - DALLAS, TEXAS
SEGMENTS I-IV
 
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Name President George Bush Turnpike
Location Garland, Dallas, Plano, Carrollton and Richardson, Farmer's Branch, Texas
Mode Tollway
Description

The PGBT is a circumferential toll roadway connecting various cities in the northern part of the Dallas area. Originally planned as an outer loop around the City of Dallas, the PGBT is an integral part of the metropolitan transportation system. Additional extensions are currently being studied and planned.

Sponsor North Texas Tollway Authority (formerly the Texas Turnpike Authority)
Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT)
Adjacent cities and counties
Cost $530.5 million
Type of Finance ISTEA and TE-045 program tools
Partial Conversion of Advance Construction (PCAC)
Surface Transportation Program / Section 129 loan
Flexible Match
$135 million Section 129 Loan
$308 million TTA Revenue Bonds, now NTTA
$67 million Interest Earnings
$20 million TTA Capital Improvement Fund, now NTTA
$530.5 million Total Cash Sources
$39 million Local Right-of-Way Donations
$30 million NTTA Capital Improvement Fund remainder of additional funding to be determined
Revenue Sources Toll
Project Delivery / Contract Method Design/Bid/Build
Private Investor Partner None
Project Advisors Wilbur Smith Associates
HNTB
Dain Rauscher
McCall, Parkhurst & Horton
Locke Liddell & Sapp
Underwriters Salomon Smith Barney
Goldman Sachs & Co. Senior Managers
Physical Status Twenty-one miles are open. An additional five mile section is currently under construction and scheduled to open in January of 2006
Financial Status  
Innovations

The first project in the United States to benefit from TE-045 innovative finance provisions.

Related Links / Articles

Moody's Credit Rating*
FITCH Credit Report for 1998 Bond Issue**

Coverage in Innovative Finance Quarterly
Coverage from PR Newswire - North Texas Tollway Authority Opens New Section
Coverage from Innovative Finance Volume 1

Contacts Chris Anderson
Assistant Director of Planning
North Texas Tollway Authority
Tel. (214) 461-2021
canderson@ntta.org
Last Review/Update North Texas Tollway Authority, February 2004

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