- Trucker Website Promotes Oklahoma Travel App Upgrades
- Kansas Incident Illustrates Potential Consequences Of Oversized Load Hauling
- Congressional Dems And Republicans Spar Over Vehicle Electrification Legislation
- These are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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Trucker Website Promotes Oklahoma Travel App Upgrades
TheTrucker.com touts the Drive Oklahoma mobile app and companion website improvements released recently by Oklahoma DOT and the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority. New features include “real-time speed data and live traffic-camera views of many Tulsa and Oklahoma City metro locations; “digital message sign information by location;” enhanced data overlays; traffic condition reports from Waze users; and user tutorials.
Mobile Navigation and Traffic Monitoring Apps Oklahoma Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA)Kansas Incident Illustrates Potential Consequences Of Oversized Load Hauling
KVOE reports, Kansas DOT is ready to begin the repair of a State Highway 99 bridge over the Kansas Turnpike that was damaged in February by an over-height commercial truck hauling an excavator. The department had to hire an engineering consultant to determine the scope and expense of repair, now estimated to run about $100,000. Bridge traffic has been restricted to one lane since February. The turnpike segment beneath the bridge will be down to one lane in each direction during the repair project. “There were concerns other bridges in the area were impacted, but [a KDOT engineer] says none of the ones inspected had anywhere near the damage done to the K-99 bridge.”
Highway and Bridge Maintenance Highway and Bridge Safety (Including COVID-19 Impacts) Kansas Kansas Turnpike Authority (KTA)Congressional Dems And Republicans Spar Over Vehicle Electrification Legislation
The Hill reports, US Representatives Andy Levin (D-MI 9) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14) yesterday announced they will introduce a revised version of their 2020 bill to create a national network of electric vehicle charging stations. “If passed, the Electric Vehicles Freedom Act would create a plan for a network of public charging stations that would allow drivers to drive anywhere in the U.S. with limited risk of the battery dying too far from a station.”
The Detroit News reports on the bill’s terms and other efforts in the House of Representatives to advance “President Joe Biden’s priorities to spur transportation electrification.” According to the article, Democratic proposals are meeting resistance from GOP lawmakers who maintain the government is aggressively pushing EV technology when “the market and consumer choice” should determine the pace of its adoption.
CBS News Denver reports, the ambitious and “slightly bipartisan” transportation funding proposal introduced this week by Colorado’s governor would “usher in a new era around electric cars, buses and trucks.”
Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Environmental Protection Policies Procedures And Initiatives US Gov't Transportation FundingThese are just some of the toll industry developments TRN is following.
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