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Golden State HSR moves forward to lay rail. 2 Key Pieces of Info.

In 2008, voters approved $10 billion in bonds
On March 3, 2017 the California Finance Department approved the sale of bonds to spend $2.6 billion on rail work in the Central Valley.

State: Montana

Legislative proposal to increase the gas tax by: 8 cents

Last time Montana increased the gas tax? 23 years ago

The pitch: Out of state drivers would pay between 25 and 40% of the new gas tax revenue

Neiman Marcus

Dallas to Houston High Speed Rail

Highlights from Texas Central Rail repsonse to the high speed rail bill package:

” a slate of discriminatory bills”
it is the “use the power of the state government to single out and kill a free market project”
10,000 jobs are represented by high speed rail project
Billions of dollars will be invested in the Texas economy
Collaborating with landowners
“a majority of Texans have been clamoring for” this project

Tyler Morning Telegraph editorial opposing Texas Centrail Rail raises these 3 points:

This isn’t a rural-urban issue. This is a property rights issue.
You can’t say this is a private enterprise, promoting free market when you use eminent domain, because eminent domain is the opposite of free market.
This is crony capitalism with the government “thumb on the scale”

Considering implementing an electric vehicle fee in 2017 are:

How does this compare to the current electric vehicle fees? 10 states have electric vehcile fees which range from $50 to $300

Indiana is increasing transportion funding tis year by:

10 cent increase in the gas tax
- adds an annual indexing through 2024, with a cap at 1 cent per year
$150 annual fee on electric cars
$15 transportation infrastructure improvement fee applied to all motor vehicles
- excepted from the $15 fee are vehicles over 26,000 lbs