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What’s the pitch? Colorado Business leaders are calling for a $3.5 billion bond measure.
What’s the organization backing the bond? Fix Colorado Roads
What happened to Colorado’s legislative proposal on transportation bonds in 2015? The bonds hit road blocks when Colorado Department of Transportation raised issues.
How did the agency kill bonds? CO DoT raised concerns that bond maintenance would take money away from road maintenance.
Greater Houston Partnership Transportation Council is examining RideScout.
What’s Ride Scout? An App that “replicates the reliability and flexibility of car ownership with access to bus, rail, bikeshare, car share, taxi, carpool, walking, biking, driving and parking”
Freight movement is entering a new, driverless world. Both 18 wheelers and train cargo are entering a new automated world. The future is now.
5 Ways driverless freight will impact Texas:
The big truck companies testing driverless big rigs:
Ride Share Contracts are a modern contract lawyer’s dream. Evolving, intrictate, and constantly litigated.
One ride share company is altering its contract with drivers to include fixes illuminated by a trial court judge concerning arbitration provisions. New provisions, familiar to those who read the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code for bed time reading are:
…Paul Allen.
Who teamed up with Paul Allen? Department of Transportation
What’s the project?Smart City Challenge
What’s the goal of the Smart City Challenge for traffic solutions?
incentivize forward-thinking, high-tech solutions to the gridlock and inefficiencies that come part and parcel with urban living. T
What kind of traffic solutions are being grant funded?
Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transportation & Urban Development (JOIN) has agreed to contribute $40 million in funding for Texas Central Partner’s high speed rail.
Texas Central funding to date? $75 million from Texas based investors
Total Estimated cost for the Dallas to Houston segment? $10 to $12 billion for the 240 miles
Texans Against High-Speed Rail, an opposition group, wants: An assurance that no taxpayer funding will go to the project.
Google cars are maneuvering Austin roadways while Texas’ regulation of self-driving cars is laissez-faire libertarian.
4 Reasons Why the libertarian approach has prevailed:
In 2012, Attorney General Abbott was asked by Chairman Pickett to answer questions about:
The Attorney General Opinion GA-0981:
Which County is proposing a Transportation Reinvestment Zone? Cameron County
How is Cameron County moving forward with the Transportation Reinvestment Zone? The County Commissioners are voting to approve a merger of 5 TIRZ districts
What 3 benefits do they see in the Transportation Reinvestment Zone?