CONGESTION IN LOS ANGELES. VIDEO

Hey guys! After experiencing some technical problems, blog posts are back! Yesterday, I found a very interesting video on another blog about how bad congestion is in Los Angeles!

And I founf it through Twitter. Facebook, twitter, blogs altogether have created a very useful way of sharing information and knowledge and that´s why I encourage you to use all this Web 2.0 tools.

Special mention in the video is for the SR 91 Express highway in Southern California. The video shows how managed toll lanes work.

Anyways, I leave you here the link to the video, I´m sure you are going to realize that private roads are necessary. It´s completely insane that somebody takes three hours to get back home after work. Califoria needs Public private partnerships and new infrastructures!

VIDEO: Drew Carey on Private Highways

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PPP/P3: A possible target in Ohio through "Transportation Innovation Authorities"

This is the second post of the series of posts on "PPP/P3 LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. ONE STATE, ONE POST". The second state of the series will be Ohio. The situation of PPP´s in Ohio is very different from this in Alabama; in fact no possible projects get any talk. Instead, all the noise in Ohio comes from Ohio´s governor budget proposal.

Ohio governor Ted Strickland's budget proposal for 2010-11 includes a transportation bill that, among other things, would allow municipal governments and regional authorities to make use of tolling and P3s.

In addition, the budget proposal also emphasizes that Ohio's Department of Transportation should make it a priority to "create innovative financing tools such as public-private partnerships, Transportation Innovation Authorities (TIAs), and tolling".

The idea will be to allow local authorities to create (TIAs), which in addition to raising taxes would also be able to collect tolls.

Ohio appears to be somewhat similar in concept to Regional Mobility Authorities (RMAs) in Texas which are kind of toll authorities.

The budget bill if adopted also will give Ohio DOT "the authority to use tolls on new infrastructure capacity (not existing roads, bridges or other infrastructure) to invest in more transportation projects."

The idea would be more practical for projects in central Ohio and the Cleveland area, where major proposals have been offered for reducing traffic congestion.

Governor Strickland insisted he has no specific project in mind.

You can read more information on this paper of the "2008 Innovative Financing Workshop for Ohio Transportation".

Ohio Innovative Financing In Transportation

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British Columbia government takes over Port Mann Bridge after P3 collapse

This is a very short post just to tell you that the Port Mann Bridge has been taken over by the British Columbia Government. The chosen private consortium has not been able to manage to get the financing for the project and the government decided to rescue it from private hands.

Flatiron and Kiewit will be the contractors and will get paid a fixed quantity by the government.

Anyways, you can read more about it, here. There is also a discussion going on in one of the news, so join it and leave a comment.

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Port Mann PPP Financing

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