{"id":127,"date":"2015-02-25T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/02\/25\/poll-2-3-of-texans-support-increased-transportation-funding\/"},"modified":"2015-02-25T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:24:00","slug":"poll-2-3-of-texans-support-increased-transportation-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/poll-2-3-of-texans-support-increased-transportation-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 2\/3 of Texans Support Increased Transportation Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the\u00a0Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute\u2019s Transportation Policy Research Center transportation poll:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 2\/3 support increased funding for transportation statewide.<\/li>\n<li>A majority also support increased funding for public transportation.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Of the options offered, respondents favored dedicating the motor vehicle sales tax to transportation needs; they least supported raising the vehicle registration fee from $65 to $115.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>From a list of 15 different ways to improve transportation in the state, better traffic signal timing and clearing accidents more quickly were the most popular ideas.\n<ul>\n<li>Building more toll roads was the least-supported option.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tti.tamu.edu\/policy\/texas-transportation-poll\/\">Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the\u00a0Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute\u2019s Transportation Policy Research Center transportation poll:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 2\/3 support increased funding for transportation statewide.<\/li>\n<li>A majority also support increased funding for public transportation.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Of the options offered, respondents favored dedicating the motor vehicle sales tax to transportation needs; they least supported raising the vehicle registration fee from $65 to $115.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>From a lis&#8230;<\/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":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","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=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}