{"id":229,"date":"2015-07-02T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/07\/02\/lege-trend-no-tax-transportation-plan-6-funding-sources-5-policy-priorities\/"},"modified":"2015-07-02T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:29:00","slug":"lege-trend-no-tax-transportation-plan-6-funding-sources-5-policy-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-no-tax-transportation-plan-6-funding-sources-5-policy-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: No Tax Transportation Plan. 6 Funding Sources. 5 Policy Priorities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California is facing a special legislative session on transportation. Republians have a plan to fix transportation funding without taxes by touting these principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reform existing laws to get transportation projects moving quickly and at lower costs<\/li>\n<li>eliminating redundancies<\/li>\n<li>cutting through red tape<\/li>\n<li>making a formal commitment to prioritize transportation<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0without taking any money away from education or the Rainy Day Fund.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, by using these funding sources for $6 billion in existing state funds for transportation infrastructure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a040 percent of funds in California\u2019s Cap &amp; Trade program: $1 Billion+ annually<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Existing funds from Vehicle Weight Fees: $1 Billion annually<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Invest half of the Governor\u2019s strategic growth fund into shovel-ready roads projects: $200 Million annually<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0 Eliminate redundancies at Caltrans: $500 Million annually<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0 Eliminate and capture savings from 25 percent of long-term vacant state positions: $685 Million annually<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Make a formal commitment in the State Budget General Fund to fund transportation: $1 Billion annually<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is California&#8217;s transportation funding deficit look like?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>400,000 miles of roads<\/li>\n<li>$59 billion in deferred road maintenance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristinolsen.org\/2015\/07\/01\/olsen-and-achadjian-how-to-fix-our-roads-without-new-taxes\/\">Kristin Olsen<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymotherlode.com\/news\/local\/243437\/republicans-propose-6-billion-transportation-plan.html\">Gateway to California Gold Country<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article25642582.html\">Sacramento Bee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is facing a special legislative session on transportation. Republians have a plan to fix transportation funding without taxes by touting these principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reform existing laws to get transportation projects moving quickly and at lower costs<\/li>\n<li>eliminating redundancies<\/li>\n<li>cutting through red tape<\/li>\n<li>making a formal commitment to prioritize transportation<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0without taking any money away from education or the Rainy Day Fund.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, by using these funding sources for $6 billion in existing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","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\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}