{"id":168,"date":"2015-04-15T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/04\/15\/funding-trend-make-cities-pay-the-state-hundreds-of-millions-annually\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T22:16:00","slug":"funding-trend-make-cities-pay-the-state-hundreds-of-millions-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/funding-trend-make-cities-pay-the-state-hundreds-of-millions-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Trend: Make Cities Pay the State Hundreds of Millions Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chair of a New York legislative committee is proposing the creation of a transportation finance authority that would fund transportation with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A 10-cent increase in the state gas tax would yield $500 million annually.<\/li>\n<li>A half-percent income tax increase on New Yorkers earning between $500,000 and $2 million each year would raise their rate from\u00a06.85 percent to 7.35 percent, bringing\u00a0in $750 million annually.<\/li>\n<li>A mandatory contribution from New York City, starting at $60 million in the first year and adding an additional $60 million each year until the city\u2019s contribution is capped at $300 million annually.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2015\/04\/10\/assembly-bill-kicks-off-negotiations-over-transportation-funding-in-albany\/\">Streets Blog NYC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chair of a New York legislative committee is proposing the creation of a transportation finance authority that would fund transportation with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A 10-cent increase in the state gas tax would yield $500 million annually.<\/li>\n<li>A half-percent income tax increase on New Yorkers earning between $500,000 and $2 million each year would raise their rate from\u00a06.85 percent to 7.35 percent, bringing\u00a0in $750 million annually.<\/li>\n<li>A mandatory contribution from New York City, &#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":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}