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The 7 states: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming
The MOU: Regional Electric Vehicle Plan for the West
The 7 Interstate Corridors:
The goal of the states: to ease “range anxiety”
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Legislative Gusto: Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee & vice-chair of the 21st Century Missouri Transportation System Task Force filed SB 734 to raise the gas tax
Support for the gas tax increase:
The State Road using Flex Routes: Michigan’s U.S. 23
What’s a FlexRoute? inside median shoulder can be used by drivers during rush hours
2 Policy reasons regulators support the Flex Route:
Equipment World | Mich.’s new Flex Route can cut travel time in half, MDOT says
State: Nevada
The Transportation Funding Set Aside Proposal: 5% of transportation funding for smart vehicles
How will the 5% be divided within the state? 80% to large and midsize cities & 20% to Rural areas and regional partnerships
Proponents: Bipartisan: Democratic State Senator Catherine Cortez Masto 7 Republican Governor Sandoval
Las Vegas Review Journal | Nevada senator calls for tax money for ‘smart’ vehicle projects
The new group: Texans for Traffic Relief
Who is in the new group: Business groups, local elected officials & highway industry interests
3 key points to know about :
Texas State Senator Hall response to…
Oklahoma has instituted a new $200 fine for drivers that drive too slow in the left lane.
The new fine comes with an outreach message of ” Camp at the Lake Not in the Left Lane.”
Supports of the left lane fee say that slow drivers in the left lane is as dangerous as speeding.
Equipment World | Left-lane hogs face fines in Okla. under new law
Alabama in 2016 Began collecting a fee of $1 per $1,000 in project value on nonresidential building permits.
Genesis: The consruction fee was supported and pushed by the Alabama Associated General Contractors.
The funding for construction work skills is distributed by Alabama Construction Industry Craft Training Board.
Equipment World | New fee funds construction worker training in Ala.
House Committee on International Trade & Intergovernmental Affairs
#2 Transportation Barriers to Trade. Review the current state of infrastructure at Texas’ international shipping ports and border ports of entry in Texas. Identify transportation-related impediments to international trade and estimate the impact of those challenges, including border wait times, on the state’s economy. Make recommendations for improvements to facilitate international trade and economic growth. (Joint charge…
TXDOT proposes billboards rules that permit billboards to 85 feet high.
A Sunset bill author, TX Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville says:
What’s the property right issue at play? Existing billboards that were built under 1986 rules that had no height limitations
The…
What’s missing from most state and federal self driving car regulations and legislation? Big Trucks.
Self driving truck economuy is growing and the regulations and legislation are not keeping pace, or so say lawyer sin this field in California, the first state to implement self-driving car regulations.