Paying for roads is getting more costly according to the Comptroller. Relying on the Texas 2030 report, Texas 2030 Comm…
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Ride Share legal in DC, What about data from ride sharing?
DC passed new legislation for ride sharing services. It will require:
(1) registering with the DC Taxicab Commission
(2) covering drivers with $1 million in primary insurance
(3) criminal background checks for drivers , and
(4) their cars annual inspections.
Washington Post points out that local regulations on ride share continuously forego obtianing access to ride share data to strengthen their own transportation systems and provide an understadn…
Rinaldi: Opposes Prop. 1 & Wants a dedicated Vehicle Sales Tax
Matt Rinaldi opposes Prop 1. He believes transportation funding should be dedicated revenue from a vehicle sales taxes.
Rinaldi, who defeated Bennett Ratliff in the primary, also believes that economic development funding is corporate welfare. In his opinion, economic devleopment is gained through low taxes & limited regulation.
Posted incampaign trend, funding, roads
Bill Hammond writes that underfunding transportation imposes a litany of costs on Texans. These costs are: Wear and tear from driving on deficient roads: $25.1Billion/year. This amounts to $1,740 per year per person in Dallas; $1,850 for Houstonians; $1,780 in San Antonio; and $1,655 in Austin. [McAllen Monitor] TribTalk offers perspectives. Today’s perspective is from State Representative Jeff Leach. The highlights of his persceptive on transportation funding: Texas is moving ahead with privately built high speed rail. The first public meetings began this week to discuss the proposed Dallas-Houston leg. Federal Railroad Administration and TXDOT jointly held the meetings. At issue were: For the list of public meetings:
Posted inrailways
Empower Texas opposes a lot of things, including changes to the gas tax. In the penned opposition, note their last paragraph: The biggest advocate for a gasoline tax hike in the state senate is Sen.
Posted incampaign trend, funding, legislative trend, roads
Proposition 1 on the November ballot would provide an additional $1 Billion to transportation funding. TXDOT estimates that the state under funds transportation by at least $5 Billion per year or $10 Billion each time the Legislature meets. Organizations are lining up to support Proposition 1 including Texas Good Roads and Transportation Advocates of Texas.
Posted in2013 Legislation, funding, legislative trend, roads
San Francisco’s Prop A on November’s ballot has the primary goal to reduce the number of cars and car lanes. San Francisco is willing to spend $500 million, in its tiny 9 mile by 9 mile area, to add bike lanes, improve CalTrain down the peninsula, update traffic signals to move buses more expeditiously, and improve pedistrian paths. [SFGate and SF Chronicle] A proposed new toll road in North Texas by the Texas Turnpike Corporation has garnered the attention of activists. Lots of activists. A public forum was shut down by the Fire Marshall. The next public forum included heated and vocal opposition. Last week there was an organized protest by Texas TURF. And now Breitbart, the same organization for which Michael Quinn Sullivan writes, posted in opposition to the toll road. Besides the disdain for toll roads, the proposed North …TAB: The Cost of Underfunding Transportation
Rep. Leach: How to Fund Transportation
Texas High Speed Rail First Public Meetings
Empower Texas Opposes Gas Tax Changes
3.5Billion More Funding Necessary after Proposition 1
A Proposition to Remove Cars from the Road?
Breitbart: No Toll Road