{"id":155,"date":"2015-04-02T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/04\/02\/toll-battle-wages-across-the-u-s-all-eyes-look-to-texas\/"},"modified":"2015-04-02T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:53:00","slug":"toll-battle-wages-across-the-u-s-all-eyes-look-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/toll-battle-wages-across-the-u-s-all-eyes-look-to-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Toll Battle Wages Across the U.S. All Eyes Look to Texas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highlighting a Texas Turf Anti-Toll protest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-03-31\/toll-battles-mount-as-u-s-states-seek-cash-for-ailing-highways\">Bloomberg <\/a>looks at the battles waging against toll roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kentucky: Toll Fees to replace an ailing bridge to Ohio were blocked by Tea Party legislators\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Congress:\u00a0\u00a0FedEx Corp. and McDonald\u2019s Corp are working to keep barriers to toll roads on Interstate highways in tact<\/li>\n<li>Connecticut: Republicans blocked new toll legislation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bloomberg also siezes on a Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute statistic to support toll roads : &#8220;$121 billion in wasted time and fuel in 2011, or $818 per commuter.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Scott Sanford is also quoted as saying, &#8221;\u00a0\u201cIf a core function of government is transportation &#8212; building and maintaining roadways &#8212; that means whatever a citizen pays for that core government function is a tax.\u00a0What we end up with is taxation without representation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlighting a Texas Turf Anti-Toll protest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-03-31\/toll-battles-mount-as-u-s-states-seek-cash-for-ailing-highways\">Bloomberg <\/a>looks at the battles waging against toll roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kentucky: Toll Fees to replace an ailing bridge to Ohio were blocked by Tea Party legislators\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Congress:\u00a0\u00a0FedEx Corp. and McDonald\u2019s Corp are working to keep barriers to toll roads on Interstate highways in tact<\/li>\n<li>Connecticut: Repub&#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":[14,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-legislative-trend","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}