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The City: Sacramento, California
The bike safety proposal: Unsafe bicyclists would be sent to mandatory traffic safety school instead of fining the cyclists.
The current fine for unsafe bicyclists: $5
The new propsoed fees:
Sacramento Bee | Should rule-breaking cyclists be sent to bike traffic school?
Why is port traffic increasing because of wind energy? The parts necessary to build a wind turbine are large and transported via port.
Let’s look at the impact on the Port of Corpus Christi:
Corpus Christi Caller Times | Wind energy exports making port’s role more important
Which communities are considering ride share for low income communities? low income communities in California
How does the program organize? California Air Resources Board (CARB) agreed to include bike-share in its Car Sharing and Mobility Options pilot program.
Why do advocates for bikes want into ride share? Electric bikes and non-car vehciles like golf carts are low emission vehicles that can solve transportation problems by offering neighborhood vehicles
Streetsblog California | Bike-Share Can Get State Funding to Reach Low-Income Communities
The start up: Transonic Transportation LLC
The rail project: A hyperloop connecting Austin & San Antonio
The use of royalties instead of eminent domain: Instead of acquiring land, the model involves giving dividends and profit sharing to landowners
The pro-private proeprty rights angle: Since hyperloop track would be build on pylons, there is no barrier to access to land, unlike when tracks are laid on the ground.
What companies are directly involved?
Which motor vehcle companies are included via Mobile eye?
What’s the goal of the Alliance?
Wallstreet Journal | BMW, Intel, Mobileye Link Up in Self-Driving Tech Alliance
Which easter state legislature is confronting transparency in ride share data? Massachusettes
Included in recently passed statewide ride share laws is sharing which information with regulators?
Is the information that ride share companies provide public? No.
Salem News | Our view: Legislature needs to make ride share information public
The states either using, testing, or moving toward transportation funding via miles driven pilot programs:
What do Republicans in Connecticut say? Charging by miles driven is the new tollroad.
Government Technology | Connecticut Joins States in Exploring Mileage Tax
How much reduction in parking ticket funding? $2.5 million reduction in parking ticket funds
How is technology interceding to reduce parking ticket payments? A robot lawyer.
How often has the lawyer robot been utilized? 250,000 times
How often does the robot lawyer win & parking tickets are reduced? 64% of cases won
The Register | Chatbot lawyer shreds $2.5m in parking tickets
A conservative writer points to 3 “experts” to support the argument that subsidies will be involved in Texas High Speed Rail:
The Expert: Stanford University economics professor Alain Enthoven
The Subsidy angle: Eminent Domain is a subsidy
The Expert: assistant director of transportation policy for the Reason Foundation, Baruch Feigenbaum
The Subsidy angle: federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loans are subsidies
The Exert: Gerard Llobet, associate professor of economics at Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) in Spain
The Subsidy angle: Only 3 high speed rails in the world are profitable: Tokoyo to Osaka, Paris to Lyon, & Shanghai to Bejining. Building without subsidies is not probable.
Fiscal Notes | Texas Road Finance, Part II: Economic Impacts