Category Archives: legislative trend

LEGE TREND. Lawmaker calls for Review of Ride Share State Law. Where. What. Why. & Why Now?

Where: South Carolina

What:  State Representative Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston is calling for all business to be treated fairly

Why: All transportation service companies, including taxis, should have the same rules to play by, sich as:

  • same insurance requirements
  • same licensing fees
  • muncipal caps

Why now? Now we have the data about ride share

Statehouse Report | NEWS: Lawmaker wants Uber, Lyft regulations to be reviewed for fairness

Lege Trend. Trucking Industry Backs Oil and Gas Opposition to a Ballot Proposition.

A Colorado ballot propsition to curb drilling near neighborhoods see trucking industry support oil and gas in opposition.

The opposition arguments from trucking industry:

  • it will harm the economy, and my small trucking business
  • it will harm local tax revenues when oil and gas revenues decline
  • it will harm education fudning

 

Glennwood Springs Post Independent | Counterpoint: Opposed to Proposition 112

EV Fleets. What does research say about them helping with EV numbers?

According to new data analytic rubic by National Association of State Energy Officials and Cadmus, government fleet incentives are the least helpfulw ith EV policies because:

  • no evidence demonstrates that it improves EV adoption
  • fleets are usually too small to make an impact by visibility

 

Utility Dive | New tool helps states identify EV policies that work, and those that don’t

 

Lege TREND. Disguising a Gas Tax Bill for Transportation in a School Finance Deal. Here's How:

Where:  Utah

The legislative compromise: The Utah Legislature and Supports of Increasing School Funding made a deal that would:

  • put a 10cent gas tax question to the voters and then require legislative implementation after the vote
  •  the Legislature in exchange:
    • froze the state basic property tax rate for 5 years
    • created a new tax rate for the weighted pupil unit thereby creating a $292 million increase in education funding.
    • if the gas tax is approved, funds would be divded like this:
      • 70…

Lege TREND. Local Voters Approval for Ride Share Taxes? 4 Opposition Arguments.

Voters in San Francisco in November 2019 can vote wehter to approve a 3,25% tax onn ride share. Thanks to AB 1184 ( 2018 | CA) .

The Heartland Institute offers reasons to oppose a ride sahre tax:

  • San Francisco cost of living is already high enough
  • Termites. “Taxes such as this one are like termites: They eat at the foundation of the community,”
  • Taxes drivers. Drivers may get stuck paying the tax
  • self-sabotaging regulation

Heartland Institute | SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS TO CONSIDER TAXING UBER

TREND. 6 Reasons California is talking about scrapping its High Speed Rail

 

  • not feasible financially 
  • not feasible politically
  • its a costly failure, it’d be cheaper if California bought Southwest Airlines and flew Californians around
  • High Speed Rail project is a net greenhouse gas producer
  • The questions outweigh the answers, we need tangible gains from the project
  • let’s ask voters, again

Sacramento Bee | Should California Scrap its High Speed Rail?

A Cyber Attack on a Port. 3 Regulatory Requirements emerging in the Golden State.

The Port: Port of San Diego

What happened in the ransomware attack?

  • Administrative systems were held hostage for a certain sum
  • Port staff shut down other portions of the port’s computer infrastructure
  • The port continued to operate during the attack on Sept. 25, 2018
  • Computer systems are not 100% as of 10.11.2018
    • no online permitting currently
    • no open records requests can be answered

3 Regulatory standards that emerged:

  •  deploy a multilayered security program
  • required data back up at…

6 Opposition Points. Letter to the Editor. Texas High Speed Rail.

A person who:

  • owns property in Leon Co. 
  • is not directly impacted by Central Texas Rail 
  • has been the fundraising chair for Texans Against HSR

Opposition rational:

  • how Texas Central agents treat people
  • critically flawed Federal Railroad Administration’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement
  • bad for our natural resources
  • bad for communitites
  • no need for the project
  • no financial viability 

Navasota Examiner | Letters to the Editor – TAHSR

Local TREND. Ride Share Wants Tolling?

In Seattle, Uber is supporting tolling for:

  • congestion pricing 

Are they doing this elsewhere? Yes, $10 M committed nationally to support sustainable mobility

Why does ride share support congestion pricing tolls?

  • the company supports “sustainable mobility” issues
  • the company supports measures to reduce congestion

The Hill | Uber to lobby for road tolling in Seattle