{"id":124,"date":"2015-02-23T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/02\/23\/4-transportation-reform-ideas-via-empower-texas\/"},"modified":"2015-02-23T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:25:00","slug":"4-transportation-reform-ideas-via-empower-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/4-transportation-reform-ideas-via-empower-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Transportation Reform Ideas via Empower Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Empower Texas has a litany of transportation reform ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before more funds, restrict the impact of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO)\u00a0to undermine sound policy\n<ul>\n<li>The problems with MPOs:\n<ul>\n<li>MPOs are federally mandated<\/li>\n<li>Federal government is allowed to indirectly control transportation<\/li>\n<li>They are composed of &#8220;bureaucrats from transit agencies, toll authorities and TxDOT&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>MPOs &#8220;can hold TxDOT funds hostage&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Restrict TXDOT\u00a0projects that include\u00a0partnerships with MPOs<\/li>\n<li>Statutorily remove the authority the state grants to\u00a0MPOs and COGs<\/li>\n<li>Stop\u00a0COGs and MPOs from expanding their reach to include economic development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empowertexans.com\/around-texas\/transportation-reform-restore-local-control-accountability\/\">Empower Texas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empower Texas has a litany of transportation reform ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before more funds, restrict the impact of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO)\u00a0to undermine sound policy\n<ul>\n<li>The problems with MPOs:\n<ul>\n<li>MPOs are federally mandated<\/li>\n<li>Federal government is allowed to indirectly control transportation<\/li>\n<li>They are composed of &#8220;bureaucrats from transit agencies, toll authorities and TxDOT&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>MPOs &#8220;can hold TxDOT funds hostage&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>&#8230;<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10,12,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-legislative-trend","category-local","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}