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Tyler Morning Telegraph brings us the reasons why high speed rail will not work in Texas:
Tim Kieth is the new CEO at Texas Central Rail. He is:
Texas Central Rail also garnered a $75 Million investment from:
One notable supporter, Senator Don Huffines, breaking from other conservative Senators Like Kolkhorst, who filed bills this year to limit the rail’s eminent domain authority:
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A partnership between the University of Michigan and motor vehicle companies is funding a 32 acre testing ground tfor self driving cars.
The Mobility Transformation Center is a public-private research institute that includes the testing area.
The case of the missing $20 Million of federal trasnportation dollars for El Paso:
The hub-bub? A claim “that the city lost more than $20 million in federal money for critical transportation projects through the Metropolitan Planning Organization due to errors on funding applications.”
The other side: The funds aren’t lost. We’ll correct our mistakes (deadlines not met, application problems), and get the money a little later. No biggie.
Seattle has a transportation funding crisis. The mayor has called for $930 million in additional funding.
Two City Council members tried to counter the straight $930mllion levy on property taxes with a funding plan that included:
The move failed, but the creativity in the funding structure should be appreciated.
Trying to find a solution for transportation funding, bipartisan U.S. Senators seek to tax foreign assets.
“Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Rob Portman (R., Ohio), co-chairmen of a Senate Finance Committee working group on overhauling the international tax system, would impose a one-time tax on profits that multinational companies have stashed overseas at a rate lower than the current 35% U.S. corporate tax rate, according to a summary of its major provisions.”
With federal transportation funding overhauled stalled, many states this year raised taxes for transportation including:
What coalitions supported these tax increases? The peope trying to get to work.
Washington State is moving toward a permanent gas tax bump of 11.9 cents per gallon.
California is facing a special legislative session on transportation. Republians have a plan to fix transportation funding without taxes by touting these principles:
And, by using these funding sources for $6 billion in existing…