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* Senate spending bill to include $1 billion for bridges
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by David Tanner -September 11, 2007: -- The U.S. Senate has agreed to include an amendment to its transportation spending bill to provide an additional $1 billion for the nation’s bridges... If the $104.6 billion Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee bill is approved by the Senate, it must meet approval in a joint conference of the House and Senate. The House of Representatives approved $104.4 billion earlier this summer for transportation and housing...
* Pennsylvania bills would split speeds, restrict lane use, boost truck fines
PEN,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Keith Goble -September 12, 2007: -- A bill in the Senate Transportation Committee would require truck drivers to travel 5 mph slower than they do now and stay to the right on certain highways in the state... The bill – SB369 – would mandate that vehicles with a registered gross weight in excess of 26,000 pounds be slowed to 60 mph on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, rural interstates and other limited-access routes... Another point of contention in the bill is a provision that would restrict large trucks to the far right-hand lane of highways. State law already prohibits trucks from traveling in the far left-hand lane of highways with three or more lanes traveling in the same direction... Another bill targets large trucks that follow too closely behind other vehicles and drive in excess of the speed limit. It would require that trucks with a gross weight in excess of 26,000 pounds found to be following too closely to face $100 fines...
* Pennsylvania bill would outlaw text messaging while driving
PEN,USA -Land Line Magazine -September 11, 2007: -- An effort in the Pennsylvania House intended to make the state’s roadways safer by banning devices that allow drivers to text message while at the wheel could come up for consideration in the final months of the legislative session. Another bill would restrict phoning in road work zones... The bill would prohibit operating a motor vehicle while reading, typing or sending text messages on an electronic wireless device, such as a Blackberry. Exceptions would be made for emergencies... Attempts to curb the practice of using electronic wireless devices while driving have picked up steam following the release of a Nationwide Mutual Insurance survey that found one in five drivers texting while driving. That number nearly doubles for drivers aged 18 to 27... If approved, Pennsylvania would become only the second state to outlaw text messaging while driving...
* Maine lawmakers talk about transportation revenues
MAI,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Keith Goble -September 12, 2007: -- With the state of Maine facing a shortfall in highway funding, the possibility of adding tolls on some roads and bridges is among the options drawing consideration.. The chairman of the Legislature’s Transportation Committee, Sen. Dennis Damon, D-Trenton, said something needs to be done to deal with a funding gap, which is estimated at $162 million annually for the next 20 years... Meeting with the Appropriations Committee, Damon and others on the transportation panel talked about how to generate more revenue. Among the options discussed were tolling roads and bridges, turning the state’s fuel tax into a sales tax, increasing driver fees and borrowing money for repairs... Changing the fuel tax to a sales tax would allow revenues for the state to increase along with the price at the pump...
* California bill banning high-tech driver’s licenses falters
CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine -September 12, 2007: -- A bill in the California Assembly intended to protect information on driver’s licenses by prohibiting the use of radio-frequency identification devices will have to wait until next year. The devices aren’t used by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, but they are legal in the state... Radio-frequency identification devices, or RFIDs, are tiny chips that provide information by emitting radio signals. The devices are used in a variety of ways, including keeping tabs on inventories, providing access to buildings and assessing toll-road fees... The bill – SB28 – would bar the California DMV until 2011 from issuing, renewing, duplicating or replacing a driver’s license or identification card if it uses “remotely readable radio waves” to transmit personal information or if personal information stored on the card could be read remotely... Despite concerns, opponents of the three-year moratorium say the technology is “safe, efficient, and cost effective and enhances the safety and security for users.” They also say security measures can be taken to protect against potential abuse...
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