Bills

AB 2432: Designated state and local truck routes and services.

Session Year: 2015-2016
House: Assembly
Latest Version Date: 2016-02-19

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Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law requires the department, among other things, to develop, in cooperation with local and regional transportation entities, the full potential of all resources and opportunities that are now, and may become, available to the state and to regional and local agencies for meeting Californias transportation needs, as specified.

Existing federal law establishes the National Network of highways available to commercial motor transportation as truck routes authorized by provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (STAA), as amended, that can safely and efficiently accommodate the large vehicles authorized by the STAA. Existing federal law provides that this network includes the Interstate System plus other qualifying Federal-aid Primary System Highways.

This bill would require the department to prepare an inventory of all state and locally designated truck routes and services, publish or cause to be published a statewide Truck Route Network Internet Web site, and prepare a plan and schedule for addressing all inefficiencies and truck transportation network gaps, including an estimate of the annual cost and the total cost of carrying out the plan. The bill would require the department to submit the plan and schedule, together with the cost estimates, to the Governor and the Legislature not later than July 1, 2019.

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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Californias vast transportation system connects 38 million residents and supports an economy with $2.2 trillion in annual gross domestic product, including a complex freight transportation system that is responsible for one-third of the states economy and jobs, with freight-dependent industries accounting for over $700 billion in revenue and over five million jobs.

(b)The efficient movement of freight through our state is critical to the growth and health of our local, regional, intraregional, intrastate, interstate, and international freight economies and supply chains. Inefficiencies and bottlenecks in our freight transportation infrastructure and highway network result in unnecessary congestion and emissions.

(c)While a patchwork of truck routes throughout the state is the inevitable result of a statewide transportation that melds state highways and local roadways serving freight facilities governed primarily by local land use decisions, the integration of statewide and local truck routes to the greatest extent possible is preferable to the current system and will help to ensure the most efficient operation of the states freight transportation networks.

(d)There are gaps in trucking services, including fueling stations, parking, and rest areas, and inconsistent rules from jurisdiction to jurisdiction regarding truck weights, heights, hours of operations, and routes.

(e)The state is the best entity to consolidate the various components of the state highway and local roadway system into a functional trucking transportation network.

SEC. 2.Section 14053.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:14053.1.

(a)The department shall prepare an inventory of all state-designated truck routes. This inventory shall include all truck route information including maps, weight limits, and height restrictions for all routes, as well as all trucking services provided on those routes.

(b)The department shall prepare an inventory of all locally-designated truck routes. This inventory shall include all truck route information including maps, weight limits, and height restrictions for all routes, as well as all trucking services provided on those routes.

(c)The department shall publish or cause to be published a statewide Truck Route Network Internet Web site that shall include an interactive map that details all of the information for every route included in subdivisions (a) and (b).

(d)The department shall identify infrastructure inconsistencies in designated truck routes that might result in unnecessary bottlenecks, hours of delay, system inefficiencies, and nonstandardized weight limits and height restrictions across jurisdictions. In addition, the department shall determine where gaps in services, parking, and rest area locations may result in significant inefficiencies in the trucking network.

(e)The department shall notify local governments of both of the following:

(1)Trucking transportation network gaps and cross-jurisdictional inefficiencies identified pursuant to subdivision (d).

(2)Deficiencies in locally designated truck route information identified pursuant to subdivision (b).

(f)(1)The department shall prepare a plan and schedule for addressing all inefficiencies and trucking transportation network gaps identified pursuant to subdivision (d). The schedule shall be based upon the departments estimates of the shortest possible time to perform the work.

(2)The plan shall include the departments estimate of the annual cost and the total cost of carrying out the plan.

(3)The department shall submit the plan and schedule, together with the cost estimates, to the Governor and the Legislature, in the manner provided in Section 9795, not later than July 1, 2019.

Date	Status
Feb 19, 2016	Introduced. To print.
Feb 21, 2016	From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
Feb 22, 2016	Read first time.
Mar 8, 2016	Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Mar 29, 2016	In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

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Introduced (2/19/2016)