Legal Trend: Parking Ticket Funding Reduced by Lawyer Technology

How much reduction in parking ticket funding? $2.5 million reduction in parking ticket funds

How is technology interceding to reduce parking ticket payments? A robot lawyer.

How often has the lawyer robot been utilized? 250,000 times

How often does the robot lawyer win & parking tickets are reduced?  64% of cases won

The Register | Chatbot lawyer shreds $2.5m in parking tickets

3 Experts Conservatives Say Point to Subsidies for High Speed Rail. Be Informed.

A conservative writer points to 3 “experts” to support the argument that subsidies will be involved in Texas High Speed Rail:

The Expert: Stanford University economics professor Alain Enthoven

The Subsidy angle: Eminent Domain is a subsidy

The Expert: assistant director of transportation policy for the Reason Foundation, Baruch Feigenbaum

The Subsidy angle: federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loans are subsidies

The Exert: Gerard Llobet, associate…

Economic Impact of Transportation Funding in Texas. By the Numbers.

  • $60 Billion  TXDoT’s  5-10 year estimate to improve urban connectivity
  • $20 Billion  TXDOT’s estimate to improve statewide connections &  border-trade projects
  • $516 annual cost per car per year for poorly maintained road damage, but in Texas it is more:
    • $838 in San Antonio
    • $815 in El Paso
    • $772 in Houston
    • $716 in McAllen
    • $549 in Corpus Christi
  • $70.6 billion economic impact of tourism in Texas for 2014
  • 630,000 direct Texas jobs in tourism in 2014
  • $6 billion in state and…