Category Archives: local government

+1 City Adds Airport Fees to Ride Share

The city pursuing fees on ride share vehicles at its airport: Juneau, Alaska

What fees are Juneau’s airport board proposing?

  • $100/ year for rideshare companies  to operate on airport property
  • $3 surcharge on each fare to and from the airport

What fees do taxis pay at Juneau’s airport? $150/ year per vehicles without any additional ride fee

St. Louis Post Dispatch | Juneau airport considering fees for Lyft, Uber rides

Regulatory Trend. State Imposes Ride Share Standards. Taxi Standards Lowered. The Show Me State Shows You How. New 3rd Party Vendor Opportunities Abound.

In repsonse to statewide rideshare regulations, Missouri’s Taxi Commission lowered these taxi regulations to provide parity:

  • lowered the amount of liability insurance taxicabs must have from $400,000 to $125,000 per accident
  • reduced annual fees paid by taxi companies and drivers
  • removed the requirement of a human answering phones at all operation hours
  • allows for 3rd party vendors to vehicle and meter inspections & background checks

St. Louis Business Journal | Taxi commission eases…

4 Regulatory Trends for Self Driving Cars

  • How statutes assign liability for an accident involving a self driving?
  • Are manufacturers liable or the software engineers or both?
  • Do local governments need to cange stop lights and traffic movement for improved self driving car efficiency?
  • If self driving cars improve transportation times, as science indicates they do, will the local and state economy benefit?

Findlaw | Technologist | Can One Driverless Car Change Auto Liability?

Legal Trend. Public Transportation Gathers Data on Riders. Riders Sue. 3 Pieces of Informed Intel for Ordinance and Bill Writing.

Where: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay Area

The data privacy issue: Plaintiffs allege that BART captures riders unique mobile identification numbers and locations

What state law is in play? California’s advertising and privacy laws, plus the Cellular Communications Interception Act, which the state Legislature passed in 2015 to protect against unreasonable searches that could violate the Fourth Amendment

 

The Recorder | Privacy Lawyers Accuse BART of Snooping on…

Lege Trend. Big Trucks. Bigger Loads. 5 Key Points from the Agreed to Bill

SB 1524 creates this 5 point regulatory scheme:

  • $6,000 annual fee for permits allowing heavier truck weights for containerized imports and exports, limited to designated corridors within 30 miles of a port
  • 50% of the revenue  goes to the state highway funds
  • 30% to counties with the routes
  • 16% to municipalities
  • 4% to the Texas Department of Transportation for administration.

 

informed:intel April 25, 2017:

SB 1524 allows for heavier loads on big trucks when:

  • $5000 annual permit is…

Local Government Trend. Airport Gets $2M in fees per month from ride share

Airport: SFO (San Francisco)

The fee placed on ride share at the airport: an airport fee of $3.80 paid by the rider

Total fees since late 2014: $39 million

What entity administers the fee? Its a 3 step process that works like this:

  • The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Sub-Committee  in San Francisco on approved an extension of the contract between the airport and a nonprofit, the Airport Research and Development Foundation
  • The Airport Research and Development Foundation assesses and…

Local Trend. Traffic Safety and Mobility Ordinances for Ride Share.

City: San Francisco

The municipal ordinance’s purpose: traffic safety & congestion

The traffic woes the ordinance wants to cure:

  • double parked ride share cars
  • swarms of ride share cars tackling urban streets to the detriment of other drivers

The muncipal ordinance proposal to begin as a pilot program icnluding:

  • data sharing by ride share
  • agreements on pick up and drop off procedures
  • possible curb designations for ride share stops

San Francisco Examiner | Mayor Lee to tackle Uber, Lyft…

3 Steps . 2 North Texas Cities Connecting Via High Speed Rail.

Dallas and Ft. Worth are moving forward with a high speed rail line connecting the two cities. This is how they’re doing it:

  • Creating a  local government corporation with Dallas, an entity that would govern inter-city passenger rail service
  • The local government corporation would own and manage the rail line​
  • The Local government corporation would then control creation, funding and actual construction of the line

The North Central Texas Council of Governments is coordinating the project.

It…