{"id":215,"date":"2015-06-15T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/06\/15\/ag-opinion-tracker-transportation-projects-contracts-can-they-be-converted-into-other-transportation-projects\/"},"modified":"2015-06-15T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T21:45:00","slug":"ag-opinion-tracker-transportation-projects-contracts-can-they-be-converted-into-other-transportation-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/ag-opinion-tracker-transportation-projects-contracts-can-they-be-converted-into-other-transportation-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Opinion Tracker: Transportation Projects &#038; Contracts. Can they be converted into other transportation projects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Nichols has requested an Attorney General opinion as to METRO&#8217;s role in a rapid transit bus project down Post Oak in the Uptown Management District.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2003 Voters approve light rail down Post Oak Blvd. The language included that the proposition created a binding and enforceable contract between the City of Houston, Uptown, and METRO<\/li>\n<li>Now the proposal is to use the same land area but utilize rapid bus transit rather than light rail<\/li>\n<li>METRO will probably not provide funding<\/li>\n<li>METRO will operate the buses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What inquiring minds want to know: Can the voter approved light rail be converted to buses and there still be an existing, enforceable contract?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2015\/pdf\/RQ0028KP.pdf\">RQ-0028-KP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Nichols has requested an Attorney General opinion as to METRO&#8217;s role in a rapid transit bus project down Post Oak in the Uptown Management District.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2003 Voters approve light rail down Post Oak Blvd. The language included that the proposition created a binding and enforceable contract between the City of Houston, Uptown, and METRO<\/li>\n<li>Now the proposal is to use the same land area but utilize rapid bus transit rather than light rail<\/li>\n<p>\t&#8230;<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general","category-local","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}