{"id":1299,"date":"2019-07-19T02:09:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2019-07-19T02:09:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:09:54","slug":"tx-transportation-funding-options-via-comptroller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-transportation-funding-options-via-comptroller\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Transportation Funding Options via Comptroller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comptroller.texas.gov\/economy\/fiscal-notes\/2019\/jul\/motor-fuels-taxes.php\"> Fiscal Notes<\/a> gives us the run down on TXDOT&#8217;s Transportation plan 2040 highlights 5 funding problems:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>aging transportation infrastructure<\/li><li> inflation is making it more costly to fix<\/li><li>greater fuel efficiency means less gas tax revenue<\/li><li>unreliable funding from a federal Highway Trust Fund<\/li><li>gas tax revenue will peak in 2030<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas raised its gas tax last in 1991, what have other states done?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>31 states have raised their gas tax<\/li><li>including 4 in 2019<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is there a trend in these gas tax changes? Yes, adopting a variable rate that is changed by some combination of population and economic indicators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiscal Notes gives us the run down on TXDOT&#8217;s Transportation plan 2040 highlights 5 funding problems: aging transportation infrastructure inflation is making it more costly to fix greater fuel efficiency means less gas tax revenue unreliable funding from a federal Highway Trust Fund gas tax revenue will peak in 2030 Texas raised its gas tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","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=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}