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HB1783: Traffic warning systems; VDOT to implement.
Chief Patron
Del.
John Cosgrove (R-78)
John Cosgrove
(R-78)
Chesapeake, VA
Served: 2002–
Progress
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Status
Bill is Dead
Summary
Traffic warning systems. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation, as quickly as practicable, to implement traffic warning systems, operated by private sector businesses, that will provide subscribers, via personal digital assistant devices and other wireless telecommunications technologies, with real-time information concerning traffic congestion, incidents, and other information necessary or convenient to users of the highways of the Commonwealth. View Full Text »
Poll Results
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Comments
If it must be operated by private sector businesses, shouldn't market demand be sufficient for these businesses to do this on their own?