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The Dallas Observer points out that the funding message for the team bringing high speed rail to Texas has shifted from all private fudning to exploring certain public funding options.
Public funding options for high speed rail include:
The gas tax is taking center stage for campaign season in South Carolina. “Anti-tax activists are working the phones to secure GOP senators’ opposition in 2016, when every legislator is up for re-election.”
The message: Reform the system. Don’t add more money. No new taxes. Governance reforms include:
The Chamber of Commerce retorts that reform is needed along…
Georgia this year overhauled transportation funding by passing HB 107, that will:
Last week we talked about business & labor leaders in California proposing an increase in fees and taxes to generate $6 billion for road funding. This week the California Economic Summit’s Infrastructure action team suggested transportation governance overhaul including:
Boston Surface Railroad Co. is planning a commuter rail line that would shuttle passengers between Worcester, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island. It’s about 45 miles.
Significant private investment in passenger rail is rare. The goal is to be up and running by 2017.
Not be outdone, All Aboard Florida is working on a $2.25 billion project to build a passenger rail from Miami to Orlando. It also wants to being operating a limited route by 2017.
Proposition 7
“The constitutional amendment dedicating certain sales and use tax revenue and motor vehicle sales, use, and rental tax revenue to the state highway fund to provide funding for nontolled roads and the reduction of certain transportation-related debt.”
Senator Nichols, “If passed by the voters, the proposition would be the largest single increase in transportation funding in Texas history.” GoSanAngelo
Tennessee Governor Haslam says Tennesee has a multi-billion dollar funding backlog in transportation.
To fix the state’s transportation system, he is considering a proposal to raise the gas tax, which hasn’t been raised in 25 years.
California license plates have a special coating that help facilitate the reading of license plates by electronic means. All liberty lovers, please note that the regulation at issue is a fee and not whether this coating is good or bad.
With that libertarian disclaimer, this license plate coating peels. In California, a license plate that is peeling, but still legible, generated a $1,000 fine.
In Hillsborough, Florida business organizations are “gearing up to lead the campaign to pass a half-cent sales tax for transportation projects if county commissioners agree to put the tax on the November 2016 ballot.”
Business says lack of adequate roads and transportaiton funding is harming economic development.
Cape Girardeau, Missouri has a pay as you go transportaiton fund that works like this: