Category Archives: procurement

Attorney General Opinion. 3 Key Points Toll Road Operators Opinion. Bluebonnet State.

Texas Attorney General Opinion KP-0184 establishes that 2017’s SB 312 caps administrative fees of private toll operators too.

Yes, yes it does and here is why:

  • Operators get to operate a toll lane only by order of TXDOT
  • TEX. TRANSP. CODE § 228.007(a)  says the toll operation agreements charge a toll “under this section”
  • “This section 228.007(b)(2) gives the toll operator the same duties as TXDOT which means the limits on administrative fees applies

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Anatomy of a Cross State HyperLoop Deal. 3 Pieces of Legislative Work in the Interim.

The company: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT)

The state partners: North Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) and the Illinois’ Department of Transportation (IDOT)

The deal: Connecting Chicago and Cleveland by Hyperloop. The starting point: a feasibility study to determine the viability of a number of different corridors. The “first real public-private partnership to bring Hyperloop travel to the US”

The legislative work:

  • Ohio’s legislature passed a resolution supporting the…