{"id":1185,"date":"2019-01-11T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2019\/01\/11\/lege-trend-transportation-interim-charge-recommendations-2019-texas-legislature-speed-read\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T03:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T03:12:00","slug":"lege-trend-transportation-interim-charge-recommendations-2019-texas-legislature-speed-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-transportation-interim-charge-recommendations-2019-texas-legislature-speed-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Transportation Interim Charge Recommendations. 2019 Texas Legislature. Speed Read."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/house.texas.gov\/_media\/pdf\/committees\/reports\/85interim\/Transportation-Committee-Interim-Report-2018.pdf\"><strong>House Committee on Transportation recommends:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TXDOT cooperation with local governments durin emergencies for evacuation routes, signage, and emergency management information systems<\/li>\n<li>comprehensive development agreements for projects which are not included in TxDOT&#8217;s Uniform Transportation Program should be OK if local governing bodies approve them<\/li>\n<li>If local governmental bodies have approved toll roads they should be able to have toll roads<\/li>\n<li>Increase to 6, from 3,\u00a0the number of design-build contracts at TXDOT<\/li>\n<li>Require an annual TXDOT report on \u00a0total traffic delays caused by the fault of the contractor including both administrative costs &amp;\u00a0traffic delay costs.<\/li>\n<li>Toll penalties should be uniform across the state, regardless of the entity that\u00a0controls the toll road<\/li>\n<li>Closely watch Autonomous Vehicles<\/li>\n<li>TXDOT should expand\u00a0use of dynamic messaging signs to improve safety<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Senate Transportation Committee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Combine budget strategies to accellerate projects<\/li>\n<li>Any toll sharing data chanfges should include custoemr data protections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/house.texas.gov\/_media\/pdf\/committees\/reports\/85interim\/Transportation-Committee-Interim-Report-2018.pdf\"><strong>House Committee on Transportation recommends:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TXDOT cooperation with local governments durin emergencies for evacuation routes, signage, and emergency management information systems<\/li>\n<li>comprehensive development agreements for projects which are not included in TxDOT&#8217;s Uniform Transportation Program should be OK if local governing bodies approve them<\/li>\n<li>If local governmental bodies have approved toll roads they should be able to have toll roads<\/li>\n<li>Increase to 6, from 3,\u00a0the number of design-build\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,48,10,30,16,6,45,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-ev-electric-vehicles","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-self-driving-cars","category-tollroad","category-trucking","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}