EV Company + City Partnership for all EVs. 3 Key Points informed:intel

Tesla, the city of Barrie, in Canada, and a local chamber of commerce are putting together a chargins station deal for all EV owners. 

The details of the EV charging station deal:

  • Tesla is offering to install 12 Tesla superchargers + 4 generic universal chargers at no cost to the city
  • The local chamber of commerce is offering to foot operational costs of the charging station
  • The city wants to be seen as progressive and open for business

Barrie Today | Downtown Barrie BIA offers to help…

3 Proposals to Fund Mass Transit in a Big City. Includes Real Estate Fee.

Proposals to fund mass transit in New York City include:

  • Congestion pricing
  • Creating a “transit-maintenance district”
  •  Adding a $1.50 charge to the core business district’s $60- to $70-per-square-foot rents since high rise buildings benefit the most from mass transit

Crain’s New York | Former MTA executive pitches real estate fee to fund mass transit

Local Trend. Pilot Program for Ride Share & Taxis to handle late night events.

The District of Columbia Department of Transportation  (DDOT)is testing a pilot program to handle night life traffic.

The pilot program will include:

  • converting parking spaces to late night loading zones for taxis and ride share for pickups
  • the department of transportation partnered with the business district, Golden Triangle BID, to solve the late night traffic congestion
  • ride share companies share anonymized rider data with DDOT to help refine the location of the pilot

City Lab | D.C.…

Anatomy of a Local High Speed Rail Fight in Maryland. 4 Points from the Opposition,

Where: Prince George’s County

The opposition arguments of the local officials: 

  • the high speed rail cuts through neighborhoods 
  • the high speed rail runs too close to schools
  • vow no taxpayer supported funding for the project
  • “eliminate any chance the project can seize land from private citizens” by changing eminent domain laws

WTOP | Prince George’s Co. leaders vow to derail plans for high-speed train

TX A.G. Opinion: Enforcing Big Truck Weight Enforcement on the Gulf Coast.

The opinion requestor: Liberty County Attorney

The issue that the Liberty County Attorney wants the Attorney General to answer: Whether an elected constable and his deputies may simultaneously serve under the sheriff, specifically to perform tasks related to the duties of a weight enforcement officer. 

Why Liberty County Attorney thinks an elected constable can also serve as a weight enforcement officer?  Article XVI, Section 40 oft he Texas Constitution does not prohibit an elected constable…

Local Trend 3 Cities that get Extra Ride Share Data & How Cities Get the Data.

These cities regularly get ride share tip information:

  • New York City
  • Chicago
  • Portland, Oregon

2 Methods Cities are Getting Additional TNC data:

  • From data produced through secure servers
  • Some cities have negotiated various confidentiality agreements

The Recorder | Uber and Lyft Resist Regulators’ Appeal for Data Sharing

 

East Coast City Looking at Congestion Pricing to Raise Transit Funds. Can your city enact Congestion Pricing for Drivers?

New York Governor Cuomo is has called for a study to look at congestion pricing in New York City.

How would congestion pricing work?  Two ways to phrase it:

  • Creates a toll system to enter congested portions of a city.
  • Creates a user fee for access to a central business district

What would NYC’s congestion pricing fund? mass transit

Do other cities have congestion pricing? Yes, Stockholm Sweden

Could a city in your state impose its own congestion pricing?…

CBS New York | Cuomo…

Local Government Trend. The Low Down on connected transportation data exchange.

The City: Columbus OH

What’s a connected transportation data exchange? The Smart Columbus Operating System is a system to share near-real-time data on traffic 

How does it work? it will collect data from cars that  transmit metrics like time, speed and location with road-side units. The data will be overlayed to create a regional transportation outlook

But, how does the city get the car data? 

  • From volunteers who volunteer their vehicles. Columbus is looking for 3000 volunteers
  • school…

Local Trend. Changing Taxi Regulations in Texas. 2 Reasons to Reject Change.

San Antonio City Council rejected a proposal to remove cap on taxi permits and allow an unlimited number of taxi drivers to operate independently of companies and co-ops.

Houston and Dallas have adopted these proposals to remove taxi permit caps & allow unlimited taxi drivers independent of companies and coops.

The supporting rational for not removing caps?

  • The cities that removed the caos and restrictions were said to have had periods of regulatory chaos.
  • It dilutes the opportunities for…