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Iowa Department of Motor Vehicles is releasing an app that will function as your driver’s license. No more getting ticketed for not having your driver’s license with you, unless your phone battery is drained.
State officials assure that the app and driver’s license will be secure from data security breeches. [
Raising the gas tax. Indexing the gas tax. Multiple states are wrangling with it.
Highlights from Maine:
A new report compares the “ueser pay” transportation funding streams of the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia and Japan. The US has the lowest national gas tax rate of the countries examined.
Building High Speed Rail faces challenges aquiring property. Rail takes a lot of land. 97% of Texas land is private owned. To build rail between Houston and Dallas requires crossing land owned by many landowners.
Landowners are skeptical about eminent domain. They favor fairness and view eminent domain as inherently unfair. When eminent domain is exercised by a private company the skeptism raises to higher level like DefCon 1.
These challenges were highlighted in an inter…
Roads in oil and gas producing areas of the state are receiving 2 new safety benefits:
Ron Kirk will serve as senior advisor. He joins Robert Eckles and Tom Schieffer.
Central Texas Railway has been hosting public forums to discuss its projected Dallas to Houston route. Landowners along the route have raised concerns.
Building the bullet train requires land. Most land in Texas is privately owned by Texans, who love their land. Acquiring land presents challenges. [
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Taxi service in Nevada is regulated on at the state level. When Uber began operating in Nevada, the Attorney General filed 3 suits in Reno, Las Vegas, and Carson City respectively. How do we say forum shopping in Gaelic? The Nevada Supreme Court stepped in and decided that the proper forum was Reno. The limos and taxis don’t want their business reduced, because competition is bad, and there are questions about how the state regulators acted. [
Posted inlegislative trend, ride share
SB 184 and SJR 15 seek to: New Jersey needs more funding for transportation. Its a common refrain. New Jersey has the nation’s 2nd lowest gas tax at 10.5 cents. New Jersey has a Transportation Trust Fund, but the funds go to pay transportation bond debt. Sounding familiar? To fill transportation funding gaps, NJ raised its toll prices. It’s not enough. The head of the Assembly’s Transportation Committee wants to increase the wholesale gas price. The cost to people in NJ will be about 80cent… Nevada is a quirky state where the federal government owns most the land, and there is an extraterrestrial highway. Make sure you fill up before you start the drive, because gas stations are few and far between. Roadside shops are fileld with plenty of alien costumes. A quirky legal battle is brewing in Nevada over state regulations for car services, like Uber and Lyft. 3 different lawsuits were filed by the Attorney General. Judges are fighting over:Uber Nevada Court Fight will be decided in Reno.
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