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Governor: 3 things Holding Self Driving Cars Back

Michigan Governor, a former tech executive, says these 3 tings are holding back autonomous vehicles:

Public is slow to embrace the technology
Effective commubnication to the public of the benefits of self-driving and connected vehicles
Coordinated work by 3 levels of government:
- federal government to regulate design of vehicles
- state government sets traffic laws & build highways
- local governments install connected streetlights & other infrastructure

What does Governor Rick Snyder…

Funding State Transportation Projects via Ride Share Tax. Deep in the Old South.

The State: Virginia

The ride share tax: extending state and regional sales taxes to ride services

The ride share tax revenues will be dedicated to:

“$21 million a year for mass transit systems across Virginia, replacing the use of state-backed bonds to pay for new buses”
$154 million a year for the ailing Washington-area Metro system
” one-time bond payment of $50 million as Virginia’s share of a $150 million pledge with Maryland and Washington to collect an equal share of federal funding…

1 Federal Rail Administration High Speed Rail Public Meeting. 12 Objections.

The Federal Rail Administration public meeting in Madison, County TX resulted in the following lists of objections:

The route uproots 2 cemetaries
The construction phase will require a 2 mile per side buffer zone
unfounded economics
route opposition
opposition to land acquisition by s privste company using eminent domain
the large cost to be borne by taxpayers- eventually
the project does not serve the public
electromagnetic emissions
noise pollution
reduced land values
environmental…

Meet the Non-Profit Roadblock to High Speed Rail in California

The Non-profit: Fresno Rescue Mission which feeds and houses the homeless

How the non-profit is holding up high speed rail: The non-profit is standing firm in its compensation request to receive adequate relocation costs

Are there other complicating factors? Yes, the City of Fresno leases space to the Fresno Rescue Mission

ABC 30 | Local nonprofit agency seen as obstacle holding up progress of High Speed Rail

Local TREND. By the Numbers. Anatomy of City's 2018 EV Superchargers Rollout.

City: Seattle, which has adopted the “Drive Clean Seattle” initiative that reduces the number of gas cars on the roads

Seattle installed which EV charging stations? 2 fast-charging stations for electric vehicles

What is Seattle charging for use of the super charging stations?

43 cents per kilowatt-hour to charge
This is about $10.70 to fully charge a Nissan Leaf

Other numbers to know about Seattle’s super charger stations?

80 miles of range per 20 minutes of charge time
Seattle will…

Business TREND. Anatomy of a 4500 EV charging station rollout by a utility.

The utility: PG&E

Total number of charging stations planned for the network of charging stations? 7500

Where does PG&E looking to place the EV chargers?

Condominiums
apartment buildings and
workplace

What’s the Q1 phase for the EV charging roll out plan? PG&E will place EV charging stations in partnerships with business customers

Cost of the program? $130 million

Length of the roll out to achieve 7500 EV charging stations: 3 years and end in 2020

Lege TREND. Gas Tax for School Transportation. 3 Key Points. Read the Bill.

The State: Kentucky

The gas tax proposal, House Bill 211:

3 cents
rebranded from “gas tax” increase to “school transportation funding fee”
the new funds will be specifically dedicated to school transportation

The revenue estimates from a 3 cent school transporation fee in Kentucky:

$90 million in new revenue
$30 million to be used for bonds for new buses
the remaining $60 million will go to the state’s share of school transportation funding

News-Enterprise | Lexington official proposes…