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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 authored this study about transportation safety being impacted by the oil boom? Texas A&M transportation Institute
What areas did they study to conclude its costing billions? They studied crashes in 2 time frames, 2006-2009 and 2010-2013, and in 3 areas; the Permian Basin, Barnett Shale, and Eagle Ford Shale regions.
What was the conclusion? As rig counts go up so do traffic collisions, and as rig counts go down so do traffic collisions.
How much do traffic collisions in energy…
News West 9 | Texas Lt. Gov. Discusses State Propositions at Odessa Country Club
What group studied variable speeds on Texas roads? Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Why? HB 2204 from 2013 legislation required it.
What roadways did TTI study?
Urban Congestion Site: Westbound (WB) State Loop (SL) 1604 between US 281 and IH-10, San Antonio
Construction Work Zone Site: IH-35 northbound (NB), MM 297 – MM 301, Temple
Weather-Related Site: Eastbound (EB) and WB IH-20 at Ranger Hill, Eastland County
What was the result? Yes,…
No HOV lanes to help ease congestion? How is this possible?
California Legislature passed AB 210 that would prohibit HOV times at non-rush hour times. For those who don’t like double negatives, that means HOV lanes are only permissible during rush hour.
What statutory language did California use?
a high-occupancy vehicle lane shall not be established....
unless the lane is established as a high-occupancy vehicle lane only during the hours of heavy commuter traffic, as determined by...
TXDOT submitted its Self Evaluation for its Sunset Review for the current cycle.
Let’s see what they said about Transportation Reinvestment Zones.
Refresher about TRZs: Collin County told the House Select Committee on Transportation Funding that they like this option.
What did TXDOT mention to Sunset?
Tennessee needs transportation funding. It’s also 1 of 5 states that holds no debt for roads.
Transportation options on the table in Tennessee:
Which road project? LBJ Freeway expansion
Which Senators? Both Senator Van Taylor and Senator Bob Hall reiterated their opposition to the use of toll roads.
What do local transportation officials say? The transportation director for the North Central Texas Council of Governments also wants pay-as-you go and not tolls to expand LBJ. But, the Council needs $1.4 Billion for the project.
Senator Bob Hall’s comment: if two-thirds of the project can be built without tolls, why not the…
This year Georgia tinkered with its gas tax to address a transportation funding deficit.
Georgia’s Gas Tax Reform looks like this: “Drivers pay 26 cents for every gallon of unleaded gasoline and 29 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. The new single fuel tax replaced a system of excise and prepaid local and state taxes.”
Georgia threw in some other tax reforms too: