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What city has gone techno for road repair? In Cincinnati what amounts to a larger scanner scans roadways to prioritize repairs.
How do you scan and map roads? The laser scanning of roads offers ” more comprehensive data than the random boots-on-the-ground sampling methods used in the past.”
What’s the benefit of scanning roads?
Who? Alan Clark is the director of transportation planning for the Houston-Galveston Area Council & Jeff Collins, a board member for the Transportation Advocacy Group
Where? A discussion with Community Impact papers in the greater Houston Area
What did they say?
Collins said:
Houston City Council this week approved changes to develop a spaceport at Ellington Field. City Council made these 5 moves:
Sarasota City Commissioners voted unanimously to deregulate all for-hire vehicle services to ensure both ride share and taxi cabs are permitted to conduct their business without government interference.
No regulations for cabs and ride share? Yes, indeed. Instead of choosing to regulate ride share, the city council de-regulated both types of transportation services.
What about stronger background checks, insurance requirements and vehicle standards? “If they don’t have these…
3 ride share drivers have partnered with the Institute for Justice to challenge Chicago’s “cab cartels.”
This week the federal judge ruled in favor of the ride share drivers by throwing out most of the cab claims against Chicago’s ride share ordinance.
What did the cabs allege against the city ride share ordinance? That the ordinance amounted to a taking of their property.
One cab claim continues to move forward in court whether the ride share ordinance treats rideshare…
Wind energy is providing added revenue to the Port of Corpus Christi. But there is a cost- the Port is running out of space to take in wind propelers and turbines.
The loading and unloading areas for turbines, blades and other wind-energy equipment take massive amounts of space.
The American Wind Energy Association says Texas ranks #1 in the country for both installed and under-construction wind capacity.
Ellis County Commissioners are considering a county child safty fee of $1.50.
The Question posed to the Attorney General: What can a county do with this local county safety registration fee?
What’s the beef? This is all about revenue sharing. Do the counties need to share with municipalities?
What’s happening with this revenue now? 2 approaches after deducting the county administrtive costs:
(1) the county may use revenue generated from the fee for purposes permitted by…
Los Angeles voted this week to approve ride share permits for airports. The measure passed 9-6.
What new regulations will apply to ride share and/or taxis/Limos?
Better economy breeds worse traffic. Rest assured, the Texas A&M Traffic Institute is tracking what states are doing about gridlock. See their list. More importantly, here are the strategies they suggest to counter congestion: