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BILLS * USA - North Caroline: A status report on transportation bills
With legislators itching to hit the road in the next few days — maybe by the end of this week — here's where several transportation bills stand in the waning days of the General Assembly
Raleigh,NC,USA -The News & Observer, by Bruce Siceloff -15 July 2008: --
* Wide boats. H 2167 would let fishermen and other recreational boaters haul boats and trailers up to 10 feet wide on state roads without permits, day or night...
* Long trucks. S 1695 would let truckers haul 53-foot semi-trailers on more than 20,000 miles of North Carolina highways where the length limit now is 48 feet...
* Toll collection. S 1697 gives the NC Turnpike Authority some enforcement muscle it will need to collect tolls from turnpike scofflaws -- starting as soon as the end of 2010, when the Triangle Expressway is scheduled to accept its first paying customers.
* Driver's licenses. S 1799 authorizes DMV to start printing driver's licenses with black-and-white instead of color mugshots...
* Transit money. H 2363, the state's latest effort to get serious about public transit, has run out of gas this year... This bill didn't go anywhere this summer, primarily because Triangle legislators could not agree on the local option transit sales tax...
So the transit legislation will return next year, perhaps with proposals for new statewide transit funding...
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