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Carrot: Easier Appeals of Permit Denials. Stick: Local Tax on Ride Share

Where: Seattle

What permit denials will Seattle make easier to appeal? sudden deactivations for ride share drivers

What is the proposed additional tax? 51 cents additional above the current 24 cents for licensing

What will the 51 cent ride share tax fund? affordable housing & street cars

Seattle Times | Mayor Durkan proposes 51-cent tax on Uber, Lyft rides in Seattle to fund streetcar, affordable housing

Hyperloop Beats Rail.

Where: Missouri

What is the time differential for rail v. hyper loop to cross Missouri? Train takes 6 hours vs. 30 minutes on a hyperloop

Who is backing Hyperloop in Missouri? tech giant Virgin

What’s the timeline? operational within a decade

How do they plan to get around acquiring a lot of land? Using an existing Interstate right of way

How much will this run Missouri?

$30 million to $40 million per mile
240 mile (Kansas City and St. Louis) $7.2 billion to $9.6 billion

KCTV | It takes 6 hours to cross Missouri by train, but proposed Hyperloop could make trip in 30 minutes

Anatomy of an EV Public Private Partnership

Where: Detroit, MI

Who was in the partnership?

DTE Energy
City of Detroit
PlanetM
General Motors
Blue Energy

How was the partnership able to roll out fast charging EVs in Detroit?

Divide and conquer responsibilities
- DTE Energy & Blue Energy handled installation
- General Motors tested with its all-electric vehicles
- Utilizing public spaces managed by Downtown Detroit Partnership.

Yahoo Finance | Innovative collaboration led by DTE brings first network of EV fast chargers to downtown Detroit

Top 3 EV Adoption Rates

California 7.84%

Washington 4.28%

Oregon 3.41%

National average 2%

What opportunities does the National Governor Association identify?

Electrifying state fleets is a” largely untapped opportunity”
Consider hydrogen fueled drive train for heavy-duty vehicles, including transit buses as costs decrease

National Governor Association | Transportation Electrification: States Rev Up

Postmortem on TNC reactions to AB 5

What is AB 5? The California legislation that reclassifies gig economy workers as employees

What are the arm chair quarter backs saying about transportation network Companies response to the passage of the bill?

Uber shouldn’t have taken the blanket position that drivers are not employees because there business isn’t driving, its technology platform
it is the result of the hard-driving startup culture that enabled this position
TNC’s can’t expect to repeatedly cut driver compensation and think people will be silent

INC | Uber Says New California Employment Law Doesn’t Matter Because Rides Aren’t Its Core Business

INC | The Big Mistake by Uber and Lyft That Led to Californias New Employment Law

Cost Estimates to Ride Share for Labor Laws.

Which labor law is being analyzed for its cost estimate? California’s AB 5 (2019 | CA) that defines gig workers as employees and not employees

The cost to industry: 30% increase in per driver costs

What are venture capital market analysts saying about the impact? The Gig Economy is not about economic stability. It’s flexibility with economic incentives.

S&P Global Market Intelligence | Uber, Lyft per-driver costs in California could jump 30% under gig work law

3 Points. Local Governments. Grade Crossings. Bullet Trains.

Which bullet train project? California high speed rail

What portion of the project are local governments concerned about? Grade Crossings

What are the major concerns about bullet train grade crossings?

grade separation is necessary to prevent traffic jams
at grade trains would hinder emergency service vehicles
at grade is a public safety concern for people & cars

Courthouse News Service | Bay Area Cities Grill Bullet Train Managers on At-Grade Crossings

A mayor wants to stop Foreign Made Rail Cars. Here’s what he’s doing:

Where:

Miami-Dade, FL

Which rail project is this?

Miami Dade monorail

What has the Mayor inserted into bid draft documents?

bar on participation by Chinese train and bus companies

Does the mayor have political backing?

Yes, Florida’s two Republican senators, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott who have warned of Chinese security issues
Aligns with House Bill 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act for 2019

Mass Transit | FL: Miami-Dade mayor wants to block Genting from using Chinese trains for monorail bid