Funding TREND. Ride Share Fee to pay for Transportation.

Where is this happening? Georgia

Why? Geogrias’ Department of Transportation says Uber owes the state $22.1 million in sales taxes and other charges. 

The ride share response? We are a tech company and not a transportation company subject to the sales tax like limos and taxis are

What is the fee proposal from the REPUBLICAN chair of the House Transportation Committee?

  • 50-cent fee on all rides for hire – including taxis, limos, Uber and Lyft, etc
  • Estiamted to generate $60 million a year for transportation

Atlanta Journal Constitution | Could Uber fee pay for mass transit in Georgia?

 

Local TREND. Anatomy of a Ride Share Senior Program. Private Public Partnership with County.

Where: Macon Georgia

What entities are involved in the partnership?

  • ride share companies
  • GoGoGrandparent
  • Decatur-Macon County Opportunities Corp
  • Community Foundation of Macon County

How is it funded? In part with anonymous grants to Community Foundation of Macon County

Herald Review | New program will offer free Uber, Lyft rides for low-income Macon County seniors

Local TREND. Local Rules for Reporting. Ride Share. 3 Points from the Rules. state preemption Loophole.

Where: Pittsburgh, PA

Why? Without a police report or accident report, there is no knowledge of accidents involving ride share and autonomous car companies

What are the parameters for local rules being considered in Pittsburgh?

  • encourage autonomous vehicle companies to self-report certain non-fatal traffic incidents
  • the goal: transparency

Where does the loophole come in? State laws that address TNCs but local ordinances apply to reporting to all incidents involving all subsisdiaries of a company that operates autonomous vehicles

Pittsburgh Post Gazette | Following Uber sidewalk incident, Pittsburgh drafting better reporting rules for self-driving cars 

2 Free Market Reasons to Support Texas High Speed Rail

 

  • “rail is usually the most efficient way to move goods and people over distance”
  • Private investors and the market should determine if Texas High Speed Rail is a success
    • “Legislators, that’s not your role,”.. to detemrine if the business model makes sense

 

Trib Talk | Tom Giovanetti,  President, Institute for Policy Innovation | A free-market “yes” to Texas high-speed rail

A State & Local Transportation Policy that bolster Ride Share Profit.

  • congestion pricing- user fee to roads in high-traffic urban centers
    • “surcharges on single-occupancy driving could encourage the use of less-expensive carpool offerings”

 

Cities that implement it: Stockholm, London Singapore

Cities considering it: New York City

City lab | The Policy That Will Make the Uber/Lyft IPO Pay Off

Refreshing Recollection. 1989 Texas High-Speed Rail Authority. The legislation. The Powers.

  •  SB1190 (TX |1989 created the Texas High-Speed Rail Authority.
  • SB1190 (TX |1989 gave the THSRA these powers:
    • eminent domain
    • 11 member panel
    • charged to determine whether high-speed rail  was in the public interest
    • award a franchise to operate a high-speed rail service to the most qualified applicant
  • HB 2390 (TX | 1995) abolished the THSRA
  • A final report from Executive Director Marc H. Burns stresses the need for state involvement:

    • “The State should retain planning and oversight roles in all new transportation infrastructure, particularly where new right-of-way may be required,” Burns wrote in the report. “[High-speed rail] is a mass transportation project and the role and power of safeguarding the public must be reserved to the State. Only after we have articulated how the project may be accomplished without denigrating the lives of Texans can we seek a private partner to implement a plan designed to better Texas.”

Lege TREND. Registration Fees. Repeal of Delegating Authority. 4 Key Points.

  • Last legislative session, Arizona Legislature gave a state agency power to increase vehicle registration rates.
  • The agency raised car registration rates by $32
    • The agency first thought the fee would be $19 during the legislative session
  • The first bill of the next legilativve session, SB1001 (AZ | 2018), repeals this autority and increase
  • The Governor signed the bill and said the Legislature balanced the budget without raising taxes.
    • The fee is not considered a tax by the Governor
    • Constituent response did not reflect the same sentiment

AZ Central | Arizona lawmaker proposes repeal of $32 car registration fee