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Activist TREND. 5 Anti Eminent Domain. Anti High Speed Rallies in Texas.

5 High Speed Rail opposition rallies are planned in Texas concerning the “ill-conceived Texas Land Grab Project”:

6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16 — Truman Kimbro Center, 111 West Trinity Street in Madisonville

•5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23 —Jewett Civic Center, 111 Robinson Rd. in Jewett

•6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 — Grimes County Expo Center, 5220 FM 3455 in Navasota

•6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15 — House Estate, 15743 House Road in Hockley

•6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 — Ellis County Women’s Building, 407 W. Jefferson St. in Waxahachie

A person who:

Opposition rational:

how Texas Central agents treat people
critically flawed Federal Railroad Administration’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement
bad for our natural resources
bad for communitites
no need for the project
no financial viability

In Seattle, Uber is supporting tolling for:

Are they doing this elsewhere? Yes, $10 M committed nationally to support sustainable mobility

Why does ride share support congestion pricing tolls?

In explaining how Texas Commission Environmental Quality should utilize Volkswagen emmissions funds, 3 reasons against the agency proposal:

TCEQ is following the EPA’s favoritism for electic vehicle by offering funding up to 60 percent
- government shouldnt pick winners and losers
Texas should use its own resources to achieve clean air- and that’s natural gas vehicles
“TCEQ should allow grantees to buy a vehicle to scrap”

Illinois Tollway Highway Authority is considering incorporating EV charging into its I-294 modernization.

EV methods being considered are:

EV charging lanes
- informed:intel gave you info on the lanes first tried in Sweden around Arlanda airport near Stockholm
EV charging stations
EV super charging stations

Missouri’s gas tax ballot proposition for November 2018 says:

3 businesses:

have joined the data sharing project, SharedStreets, that focused on transportation that combines data from public and private sources.

Source of this data sharing project: National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Open Transport Partnership

Goal of the project that helps cities: help officials integrate mobility services like ride-hailing

State Representative Landgraf proposes a change to transportation funding to help rural west Texas that includes:

Let oil producing areas retain a small percentage of severance taxes
- The Rainy Day Fund has $11 Billion balance
- $7-$8 billion is the standard for emergencies
Dedicate the severance tax revenue “to the region where it’s generated”
The dedicated revenue would pay for:
- adequate infrastructure
- first responders
“save lives and allow commerce to travel more freely”