{"id":157,"date":"2015-04-02T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/04\/02\/trend-transportation-funding-panels\/"},"modified":"2015-04-02T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:30:00","slug":"trend-transportation-funding-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-transportation-funding-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend: Transportation Funding Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommending a funding solution for transportation works best when the people recommending the solution aren&#8217;t elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Georgia, they had a special committee recommend suggestions and now a new transportation solution is sittin gon the Governor&#8217;s Desk. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/apr\/1\/ga-speaker-says-transportation-funding-bill-close-\/\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Connecticut follows suit with Governor Malloy appointing a 10 member Council to create a\u00a0<span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">&#8220;coordinated, cohesive strategy&#8221; for transportation needs. Governor Malloy supports a funding mix including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">\u00a0tax surcharges<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">\u00a0fees<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">public-private partnerships<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">\u00a0traditional bonding<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">new, complex financing arrangements that would attract investments from pension managers or sovereign wealth funds. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">He&#8217;ll\u00a0consider the controversial option of new highway tolls (as a partial solution)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/politics\/hc-paying-for-transportation-0401-20150331-story.html\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;line-height:27px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Hartford Courant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommending a funding solution for transportation works best when the people recommending the solution aren&#8217;t elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Georgia, they had a special committee recommend suggestions and now a new transportation solution is sittin gon the Governor&#8217;s Desk. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/apr\/1\/ga-speaker-says-transportation-funding-bill-close-\/\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Connecticut follows suit with Governor Malloy appointing a 10 member Council &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}