Monthly Archives: May 2017

Lege Trend. Anatomy of a Transportation Funding Deal.

State: Colorado

The 2 competing transportation funding mechanisms:

  • Senate Bill 267
    • creates  20-year bond program, $1.8 billion towards critical infrastructure
  • Senate Bill 303
    • uses existing taxes and a $3.5 billion bond program to pay for roads and highways

The Compromise:

  • require that at least 25%of the bond funds go toward projects in rural Colorado, with county populations of 50,000 or less
  • add in $30 million allocated to rural districts over three years.
  • School funding increase…

Lege Trend: The Idaho Stop for Bicycles Heads toward codification

State: California

What’s an Idaho stop for a bicycle? Its what the rest of the world calls a California stop. A bicylce can roll through a red light, treating the stop or red light as a yield.

Have other states allowed for an Idaho stop? yes, Idaho

What support is there for allowing the roll through stop for bicycles?

  • bicycle injuries in Idaho declined by 14.5% the year after the law took effect
  • no evidence of an increase over time
  • increases bicycle traffic efficiency

California’s Assembly…

5 Issues Tech Companies have with Driverless Car Regulations and Laws

California is revising its driverless car regulations. Read the proposed regulations. 

California’s proposed driverless car regulations prompted the following concerns:

  • elimination of language that holds the driverless car manufacturer liable for any crash its vehicle causes on a public road.
  • allow paying riders in test cars
  • rules should also cover the testing of freight trucks
  • rules should be expanded with protections for proprietary information
  • remove a requirement that data recorders…