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5 Points from State Rep. Byron Cook. High Speed Rail Op-Ed

The “Japanese – Texas High Speed Rail Project” is too good to be true
It is a “bullet aimed at property owners ” to the benefit of “commercial real estate venture or for the state’s master transportation plan for the future.”
The project is touted by “private real estate speculators”
Reliance on Japanese rail technology has 2 problems:
- its not compatible to existing rail in Texas
- “future generations of Texas rail customers hostage to a monopoly railroad technology with NO competitive…

Procurement Opportunity. 2 Ways DOTs are Pushing Info to the People.

South Carolina launched a project viewer to show real time progress of bridge and road construction
Connecticut launches a real time travel infromation with links to cameras and incidents

Mile High State Considering Adding "Idaho Stop" to Road Laws. What is an Idaho Stop?

What is an Idaho stop & does it have anything to do with potatoes or mountains? No potatoes. No mountains. An Idaho stop allows a bicyclist to treat a stop sign as a yield and a red light like a stop sign.

Which state is considering allowing cyclists to have their own interpretation of stop signs and red lights? Colorado

The Denver Post | Should legislature let Colorado cyclists use discretion at stop signs? (3 letters)

High Speed Rail Financing via Debt Financing. 2 Key Pieces of Funding Info.

Which high speed rail projects may be financed via debt financing? Texas and California high speed rail projects.

How does the financing come to fruition? Japanese pension systems will purchase debt issued by American corporations to finance high speed rail

Nikkei Asian Review | Japan’s pension megafund to invest in US infrastructure

Hoosier Legislature. Ups the Ante on Eminent Domain for Railroads. Read the Bill before it arrives in Texas.

Indiana’s House Bill 1260 requires railroads to demonstrate public use before proceeding with eminent domain.

WIMS AM 1420 | H.B. 1260 co-authored by State Rep. Jim Pressel goes to Senate

Chesterton Tribune | Soliday bill would require public need prior to eminent domain taking by RRs

NW Indiana | House approves rail eminent domain changes

5 Ways Self Driving Cars Help Local Governments.

Self driving cars estimated to help local governments by:

Adding an “excess of half a trillion dollars” via Morgan Stanley’s Autonomous Vehicles & Municipal Bonds
Creating more efficient roadway use
Dramatically reducing parking garages and parking spaces
Parking structures can be redeveloped to higher value developments, increasing property tax revenue
Increased safety will reduce emergency room visits with the reduction in traffic accidents

There will be some revneue offsets for local…

5 Elements for Connected Car Legislation.

What elements do these groups need to consider in their recommendations for regulation?

identify what’s necessary to isolate critical systems in a vehicle from the rest of its software
relevant standards for firewalls and anomaly detection systems
techniques to prevent or discourage malicious intrusions
best practices for storing the data generated by connected cars
timeline for implementing all of this

Where did these criteria for connected cars come from? The Security and Privacy in…

5 Reasons CA's High Speed Rail is 7 Years Behind Schedule. Eminent Domain is not Imminent Domain.

50% over budget ($3.6 billion in excess)
topography- dense urban areas, soggy lands, mountains
acquiring land takes time- eminent domain is not imminent domain
sluggish environmental approvals
failing to unlock federal money quickly enough

National Review | TPPF’s Chueck DeVore| California’s High-Speed Rail: Slow, Expensive, and Bound for Cancellation