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Recommending a funding solution for transportation works best when the people recommending the solution aren’t elected officials.
Look at Georgia, they had a special committee recommend suggestions and now a new transportation solution is sittin gon the Governor’s Desk. Washington Times
Connecticut follows suit with Governor Malloy appointing a 10 member Council …
Highlighting a Texas Turf Anti-Toll protest, Bloomberg looks at the battles waging against toll roads.
New York City has more Uber drivers than cab drivers.
More and more big trucks are on the roads, hauling goods to and fro. Good for the economy. Bad for public safety according to troopers who the New York times labels as unwittingly lobbying for an increase in rail.
Naturally the rail industry wants more rail and the trucking industry wants more and bigger trucks on the road. The rail industry is ginning up support from troopers through a non-profit.
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Transportation agencies throughout the US have tapped creative earning strategies to enable their assets to generate more transportation funding: California was one fo the first states to create a regulatory framework for testing self driving cars. Way back in yesteryear, 2012, California created its landscape for regulating selfd-riving car testing. A regulatory hiccup, in the form of no rulemaking to verify safety, has caused California’s innovativeness to stall. It seems no one can agree on the standards that should be imposed upon automotive makers that determine whether self driving cars are safe for the road. The compe… Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Goldsmith holds out the LBJ Freeway as an example of how P3s (public-private partnerships) are delivering value. Relying on Fitch Ratings issued in February, Goldsmith describes the LBJ Freeway as construction “has proceeded on schedule and on budget, and operations are on target to begin during 2015.” Move Texas Forward mentions the following transportation funding proposals but takes no position: In an effort to speed up the construction of high speed rail between the Twin Cities and Rochester, MN is considering private funding for high speed rail. MPR News According to the Corsicana Daily Sun, Governor Abbott opposes tollroads—“period.” 4 Ways to Make Transportation Assets Earn Funds for the State
Regulatory Road Block for Self Driving Cars
LBJ Freeway a Poster Child for Successful P3 Project
Move Texas Forward Transportation Funding Goal
MN Solution for Transportation Funding: Private Funding
Governor Abbott on Toll Roads: Nein. Nein. Nein.