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Colorado Governor is prposing the following legislative proposals in response to the growing use of EVs:
Colorado’s Trasnportation Commission is adapting to EVs by:
Denver city auditor identified that Denver International Airport wasn’t tracking ride share rides.
Why wasn’t Denver’s airport tracking ride share rides? Because it relied on the ride share comapnies to self report
Why is self reporting from ride share a problem? Other local governments say the companies are underreporting based on the cities own tracking numbers
What are concrete examples? San Francisco found underreporting of 39,000 rides in 8 months, which accounted for $150,000 in…
The new business: scooter sharing via Bird
Launch city: Santa Monica CA
Seed funding: Yes, $15M to expand nation wide
The laws/regulations/ordinances at play:
The company: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT)
The state partners: North Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) and the Illinois’ Department of Transportation (IDOT)
The deal: Connecting Chicago and Cleveland by Hyperloop. The starting point: a feasibility study to determine the viability of a number of different corridors. The “first real public-private partnership to bring Hyperloop travel to the US”
The legislative work:
The nationa’s only privately funded passenger rail: Florida’s All Aboard Florida’s Brightline venture, a high-speed train that would connect Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando with an expansion of the project linking West Palm Beach to Orlando
Who brought suit to stop the privately funded rail? 2 Florida counties + Citizens Against Rail Expansion in Florida
What are the complaints?
State: Georgia
The transportation funding bill, HB 160, would add $40 million for mass transit by:
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State: New Mexico
The Bill: SB 255 (2018)
How SB 255 (2018) would implement direct sales:
the manufacturer does not have any independent franchise dealers in this state
sells and services only the line- make of motor vehicles that it manufactures
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The What: Georgia Transportation Commission is proposing a truck only highway that stretches 40 miles from metro Atlanta to Macon
The How: Either with federal funds or only using state funds at a total cost of $1.8 billion
The Why: To reduce traffic congestion by an estiamted 40%
The opposition:
WHNT 19 | No cars allowed: Georgia considers highway just for trucks
HSB 512 in Iowa would prohibit the “use of automated or remote systems for traffic law enforcement,” to ensure that both red light cameras and speed cameras cannot be used.
2 Points from the opposition in Iowa:
FOX 42 | New bill in Iowa legislature calls for end to red light and speed cameras
Michigan Governor, a former tech executive, says these 3 tings are holding back autonomous vehicles:
What does Governor Rick Snyder…