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Parking. City Revenue. Stadiums. A trend from the West.

Sacramento has built a new stadium for the Kings. part of the funding mechanism is parking meter revenue.

Sound familiar? Similar revenue sources are bandied about related to Arlington’s new stadium.

Let’s look at Sacramento’s parking meter rate plan:

4 Event parking zones will be established in a 12 block radius
The closer to the Area, the pricier.
- Parking prices ranging from $11.25, if you pre-arrange parking in a city garage to $18.75
- Higher event night only prices will be within a…

The amount of debt service per biennium for transportation bonds: $2.2 Billion

The amount Texas borrowed for transportation fudning since 2005: $31 Billion

The states either using, testing, or moving toward transportation funding via miles driven pilot programs:

What do Republicans in Connecticut say? Charging by miles driven is the new tollroad.

How much reduction in parking ticket funding? $2.5 million reduction in parking ticket funds

How is technology interceding to reduce parking ticket payments? A robot lawyer.

How often has the lawyer robot been utilized? 250,000 times

How often does the robot lawyer win & parking tickets are reduced? 64% of cases won

A conservative writer points to 3 “experts” to support the argument that subsidies will be involved in Texas High Speed Rail:

The Expert: Stanford University economics professor Alain Enthoven

The Subsidy angle: Eminent Domain is a subsidy

The Expert: assistant director of transportation policy for the Reason Foundation, Baruch Feigenbaum

The Subsidy angle: federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loans are subsidies

The Exert: Gerard Llobet, associate…

$60 Billion TXDoT’s 5-10 year estimate to improve urban connectivity
$20 Billion TXDOT’s estimate to improve statewide connections & border-trade projects
$516 annual cost per car per year for poorly maintained road damage, but in Texas it is more:
- $838 in San Antonio
- $815 in El Paso
- $772 in Houston
- $716 in McAllen
- $549 in Corpus Christi
$70.6 billion economic impact of tourism in Texas for 2014
630,000 direct Texas jobs in tourism in 2014
$6 billion in state and…

Which state will move legislation to make its pay as you drive pilot permanent? Oregon

Which cars will be hit by the proposed pay as your drive tax structure?

Which special district holds the overhelming majority of local transportation debt?

The North Texas Tollway Authority

Space X wants the Texas Spaceport Trust Fund funded. Here’s what you need to know:

The Colorado U.S. Senate race features candidates touting new transportation funding mechanisms like:

Cut agency costs to spend more money on road construction
the federal government should not fund construction on state roads
the feds should fund road maintenance of federal roads and return the remainder of gas tax revenues to the states
switch to a vehicle miles traveled taxing system
expand energy production to public lands and use the tax revenue for transportation