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Airport: SFO (San Francisco)
The fee placed on ride share at the airport: an airport fee of $3.80 paid by the rider
Total fees since late 2014: $39 million
What entity administers the fee? Its a 3 step process that works like this:
Mercedes is parterning with Vivint Solar to provide battery storage at residences.
Autoblog | Mercedes-Benz partners with Vivint to sell solar energy storage
SB 2205 in the stealth like manner of an electric vehicle is on Saturday’s General State House Calendar. So, let’s take a peak at this legislative trend as it moves in Texas:
SB 2205 will:
The freight share: Uber Frieght
How does it work? Pairs up trucking companies, including independent operators, with loads that need to be hauled from one place to another
Tech Crunch | Uber Freight launches to connect truck drivers with available shipments
State: Georgia
The legal claim giving rise to the lawsuit: taxi drivers claimed that the medallions they must purchase are diminished in value by the statewide ride share statute
The Georgia Supreme Court: “taxicab drivers do not have a constitutionally protected “exclusive right to provide rides originating in the city limits which charged fares based on time and mileage.”
WABE Atlanta NPR | Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Law Allowing Uber, Lyft Services
City: San Francisco
The municipal ordinance’s purpose: traffic safety & congestion
The traffic woes the ordinance wants to cure:
The muncipal ordinance proposal to begin as a pilot program icnluding:
Dallas and Ft. Worth are moving forward with a high speed rail line connecting the two cities. This is how they’re doing it:
The North Central Texas Council of Governments is coordinating the project.
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The states that are moving to a fee based transportation funding system:
States considering a fee on electric, hybrid cars to offset gas tax reductions:
States that increased registration fees on electric or hybrid cars:
The Court: The European Union’s highest court
The issue- is ride share a platform or a transportation company? Legal pundits expect the court to rule that ride share companies are transportation companies.
What will be the impact? Stricter regulations apply to transportation companies
Why are pundits now paying attention to this? “An influential advisor to the court, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, has published his opinion on the case” and that opinion is not good for ride share.
A legal fight between Texas Central Rail and Grimes County has created an injuntion to ” permanently enjoin [Texas Central Rail] from performing surveys or other studies which damage, alter or impair county maintained rights of way,”
What Grimes County says it does: prevents Texas Central Rail from exercising precondemantion surveys & Texas Central Rail does not have eminent domain authority
What Texas Central Rail says it does: Surveys will continue, as they have, and no damage will be…