Lubbock, Texas scooter ordinance requires:
- ride-share scooter companies need to have a connection with a higher education institution
KLBK News | City Slaps Ordinance on Ride Share Scooter Companies Coming to the Hub City
Category Archives: legislative trend
Ballot Proposition. Gas Tax. Show Me State. What you need to know.
Missouri’s gas tax ballot proposition for November 2018 says:
- 10 cent per gallon increase
- current tax rate is 17 cents per gallon
- to fund roads, bridges and Highway patrol
- Phased in at 2.5 cents per year, over 4 years
ABC 17 | Missourians to vote on controversial gas tax increase
Campaign TREND. Texas Talk. Dedicating Severance Tax to the Permian Basin. 4 Key Points to the plan.
State Representative Landgraf proposes a change to transportation funding to help rural west Texas that includes:
- Let oil producing areas retain a small percentage of severance taxes
- The Rainy Day Fund has $11 Billion balance
- $7-$8 billion is the standard for emergencies
- Dedicate the severance tax revenue “to the region where it’s generated”
- The dedicated revenue would pay for:
- adequate infrastructure
- first responders
- “save lives and allow commerce to travel more freely”
Lege TREND. 3Legislative and Regulatory Ways to Address Trucker Shortage
Where: Missouri Governor Parson looks to address trucker shortage
Legislative & Regulatory Options for getting more truckers on the roads:
- No penalties for unpaid child support. Allow licenses to continue when there is unpaid child support. Legislative change.
- Train Inmates. Inmates should be able to train as truckers while they serve time
- Utilize state trucks for training. Missouri Department of Transportation trucks could be used in lieu of simulators for training drivers
Lege Trend. Scooter Ordinances and Helmets.
Californai Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 2989 (2018 | CA) exempting helmet use from riding electric scooters on city streets.
Sacramento Bee | Brown exempts adults from wearing helmets on scooters
Business TREND. 3 Reasons a rail project opposes another high speed rail project in Texas.
SNCF America says Central Texas Partners high speed rail proposal in Texas will:
- Japan is not right for Texas. ” Texas Central “project is right for Japanese companies subsidized by Japanese taxpayers and wrong for Texas,””
- Texans should decide on rail. Texas should decide whether projects are high speed rail or fast trains
- Rail should connect to other projects. The Japanese high speed rail has an interoperability problem in that it cannot connect to other rail.
3 Ways Governments are Promoting EVs.
Looking to China and Norway, leaders in EV sales, shows these governments:
- Norwegian government began promoting the use of EVs in 1989
- early incentives
- early promotion of the incentive programs
- cut the annual registration tax on EVs
- exempted all EVs from road tolls
- EV owners to bypass the 24% value added tax
- Chinese government is focusing on promoting EVs through research and investments in EV manufacturing companies
- China is implementing a program like California’s Zero…
New Study. Ride Share Less Likely to Take Advantage of Passengers.4 Points from the Academics in Boston.
MIT Researchers found that ride share drivers:
- taxi drivers are more likely than Uber drivers to take advantage of a situation that offers opportunities to earn a higher fare
- 7.4% deviation on average for airport pickups
- when a taxi driver switched over to driving Uber, their behavior also changed to match the effect
- Taxi drivers also tend to speed more than Uber drivers
- Uber drivers do tend to be susceptible to detouring or driving more slowly to extend a metered airport trip when surge…
+1 Local Gov. Capping Ride Share. What you Need to Know. How. What. Where.
Where: Miami Beach
What: Miami Beach Commissioners want to cap the number of ride shares, like NYC did
How? By asking state legislators to allow exceptions to statewide ride sahre regulations to allow for a cap or to allow for a cap and a wage requirement. The latter being the NYC approach.
What’s the argument supporting the exceptions? ride share is skirting the rules
“For a certain price, these companies circumvent home rule and buy themselves legislators who create the laws in…
Business and Regulatory TREND. EV Transportation Corridor. WHO. WHAT. WHERE.
WHO: Nissan and EVgo
WHAT:
- Transportation corridor to connect the cities of Boston and Washington
- 9 electric vehicle fast-charging stations
- 52 total fast chargers
- The…“I-95 Fast Charging ARC”
- 4+ EVs simultaneously charge at a power output of 50 kW
WHERE: I-95 & EVgo’s charging network has 1,000 fast chargers stations spanning 34 states
NGT News | New EV Charging Corridor Launches Between D.C. and Boston