{"id":288,"date":"2015-09-03T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/03\/3-takeaways-from-speaker-straus-transportation-reforms-continue-with-hb-20-report\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:56:00","slug":"3-takeaways-from-speaker-straus-transportation-reforms-continue-with-hb-20-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/3-takeaways-from-speaker-straus-transportation-reforms-continue-with-hb-20-report\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Takeaways from Speaker Straus: Transportation Reforms Continue with HB 20 Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Its how Texas utilizes\u00a0its funding that matters,\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;The Legislature provided significant new resources for transportation this year,&#8221; said House Speaker Joe Straus, San Antonio. &#8220;But it&#8217;s just as important to make sure that those resources are used in an appropriate and efficient way that will relieve congestion in the state. That&#8217;s why House Bill 20 was important.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Texas is increasing transportation funding. &#8220;<\/strong>Over the last two sessions, the Legislature has acted to increase transportation funding by more than $4 billion per year without higher taxes or fees.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Priorities matter.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Its funding +\u00a0prioritization of projects= good transportation system.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.dot.state.tx.us\/pub\/txdot-info\/sla\/hb-20.pdf\">HB 20 Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.state.tx.us\/news\/member\/press-releases\/?id=5680\">Speaker Straus Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Its how Texas utilizes\u00a0its funding that matters,\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;The Legislature provided significant new resources for transportation this year,&#8221; said House Speaker Joe Straus, San Antonio. &#8220;But it&#8217;s just as important to make sure that those resources are used in an appropriate and efficient way that will relieve congestion in the state. That&#8217;s why House Bill 20 was important.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Texas is increasing transportation funding. &#8220;<\/strong>Over the last two sessions, the Legislature has acted to increase transportation&#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":[14,8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-funding","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}