{"id":273,"date":"2015-08-20T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/20\/5-ways-utah-reformatted-its-transportation-funding-az-looking-to-follow-suit\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:56:00","slug":"5-ways-utah-reformatted-its-transportation-funding-az-looking-to-follow-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/5-ways-utah-reformatted-its-transportation-funding-az-looking-to-follow-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways Utah Reformatted its Transportation Funding. AZ looking to Follow Suit,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah lawmakers reformatted transportation funding in 2 significant ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Utah raised the state gas tax to 12 percent<\/li>\n<li>Utah also bolstered the gas tax\u00a0with an inflation-tied trigger for automatic increases<\/li>\n<li>The revised gas tax has \u00a0a floor of 29.4 cents per gallon<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0a ceiling of 40 cents per gallon.<\/li>\n<li>Local voters are limited to adding a 0.25 cent sales tax split between city and county transportation and transit needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Arizona Senator said of Utah,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 22 states, and mostly red states, the legislatures raised gas taxes,\u201d said Farley. \u201cWe need to do a whole lot for Arizona (transportation). The federal government is not going to get its act together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/phoenix\/blog\/business\/2015\/08\/what-arizona-can-learn-from-utahs-new.html\">Phoenix Business Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah lawmakers reformatted transportation funding in 2 significant ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Utah raised the state gas tax to 12 percent<\/li>\n<li>Utah also bolstered the gas tax\u00a0with an inflation-tied trigger for automatic increases<\/li>\n<li>The revised gas tax has \u00a0a floor of 29.4 cents per gallon<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0a ceiling of 40 cents per gallon.<\/li>\n<li>Local voters are limited to adding a 0.25 cent sales tax split between city and county transportation and transit needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Arizona Senator said of Utah,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 22 states, and mostly red&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}