Cofiroute A86

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About Cofiroute

• 33 year-old private motorway concessionaire
  company (financing, construction, operation)
• 800 million (U.S.) per year revenue
• 550 mile network in France
• 120 miles under development
• 2,000 employees
• Worldwide experience
• SR 91 Express Lanes in California
• Toll Collect in Germany
• Dartford Crossing and Severn Bridges in the UK
• Chilean Collipulli motorway in Chile

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The Need

• No public funding to complete A86
• Commute times increasing
• Increasing traffic in area impacting other roads
• Sensitive environmental and political area

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Project Goals

• Complete the missing link of the radial freeway
• Improve suburb to suburb travel
• Reduce surface travel
• Contribute to the improvement of the quality of
  life of the neighborhood
• No tax dollars used

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The Project

• Two tunnels
• East 6.5 miles
• Two-level
• Three lanes each direction
• Uni-directional
• Light vehicles only
• West 4 miles
• Single level
• One lane each direction
• Light vehicles and trucks

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East Tunnel
West Tunnel
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Lower Level
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Value Pricing For Throughputand Revenue
Production

• Means of keeping the tunnels congestion-free
• Supports financing of construction and operations
  

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Focus On Safety

• Traffic Management
• Entrance control
• One-way traffic
• Trucks separated from passenger vehicles
• Automatic Incident Detection
• Variable message signs
• FM radio override
• Customer Assistance Patrol
• Design and Environmental
• Driver sensitive design (lighting, color)
• Independent ventilation for each level
• Emergency access/refuge bay every 200 meters

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Focus On The Environment

• Extensive landscaping
• Architecture design and above-ground facility
  location blends into landscape
• Minimized above-ground facilities while
  maintaining safety
• Noise reduction

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Financing and Risk Sharing
Cofiroute - Concessionaire/Operator SOCATOP -
Design/build contractor 1.5 billion (U.S.)
private investment Financed by Cofiroute 70 year
concession Financed only with tolls Risk sharing
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ent

• Revenue and traffic
• Construction cost
• Financial risk
• Operation cost
• Government action

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Benefits

• A new road gets built
• No tax dollars are used
• Time savings for customers
• 15 reduction of surface traffic
• Relative gain in accessibility
• Creation of 800 jobs at construction stage
• Aprox 100 additional jobs during operations

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Development Timetable

• Project first envisioned as surface project by
  state - 1972
• President decides to study all alternatives -
  1975
• Underground project proposed by Cofiroute - 1988
• Concession granted to Cofiroute - 1989
• Major construction begins - 1997
• Concession challenged/construction stopped 1998
• Government rebids project 1998/1999
• Cofiroute re-awarded concession - 1999
• Construction begins again - 2000
• Anticipated opening of first 4 miles 2005

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More Information

• Visit the A86 West Exhibition
• or our website www.a86ouest.com
• Greg Hulsizer
• Cofiroute Global Mobility
• [phone]
• ghulsizer_at_cofiroutegm.com
• www.cofiroute.fr
• www.cofiroutegm.com

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