{"id":156,"date":"2015-04-02T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/04\/02\/5-point-transportation-funding-plan-from-a-california-republican-legislator\/"},"modified":"2015-04-02T23:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:24:00","slug":"5-point-transportation-funding-plan-from-a-california-republican-legislator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/5-point-transportation-funding-plan-from-a-california-republican-legislator\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Point Transportation Funding Plan from a California Republican Legislator"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Before adding new fees and taxes, look at how the current funding is used. Too much is used to build and not enough to maintain existing infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Any new funding has to be protected so it can only be used for roads, bridges and highways<\/li>\n<li>Reduce\u00a0the nearly $60 billion in deferred transportation maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Look at California&#8217;s revenue surplus and a rainy day reserve fund; some of which should be dedicated to our transportation system.<\/li>\n<li>No\u00a0new or increased charges\u00a0until all previous transportation funding is actually directed to our roads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>State Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, represents the 12th District. A civil engineer, he is vice chairman of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.\u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/opinion\/ci_27789668\/anthony-cannella-transportation-no-new-taxes-until-money?source=infinite\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Before adding new fees and taxes, look at how the current funding is used. Too much is used to build and not enough to maintain existing infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Any new funding has to be protected so it can only be used for roads, bridges and highways<\/li>\n<li>Reduce\u00a0the nearly $60 billion in deferred transportation maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Look at California&#8217;s revenue surplus and a rainy day reserve fund; some of which should be dedicated to our transportation system.<\/li>\n<li>No\u00a0ne&#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":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}