{"id":290,"date":"2015-09-10T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/10\/house-select-transportation-committee-4-take-aways-tti-collin-county-judge\/"},"modified":"2015-09-10T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:19:00","slug":"house-select-transportation-committee-4-take-aways-tti-collin-county-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/house-select-transportation-committee-4-take-aways-tti-collin-county-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"House Select Transportation Committee. 4 Take Aways. TTI &#038; Collin County Judge."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The TTI\u00a0study is going to factor into 2017- big time. See their recommendations from a few weeks ago below.<\/li>\n<li>The Committee focused on the value of transportation funding- especially, in 1991 20cents to transportation now = 6.8 cents for transportation today\n<ul>\n<li>Chair Simmons pointed out that the state has added funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>7 states recvently indexed gas tax- its trending- big time- even in Republican states<\/li>\n<li>40% of transportation funding should be local government funding\n<ul>\n<li>Collin County Judge who testified after TTI noted 40% seemed high<\/li>\n<li>The Collin County Judge supports transportation reinvestment zones for transportation funding.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information Intelligence on August 27, 2015:<\/p>\n<p>Better economy breeds worse traffic. Rest assured, the Texas A&amp;M Traffic Institute is tracking what states are doing about gridlock.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mobility.tamu.edu\/ums\/resources\/state-or-local\/\">See their list<\/a>. More importantly, here are the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net\/tti.tamu.edu\/documents\/mobility-scorecard-2015.pdf\">strategies<\/a>\u00a0they suggest to counter congestion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>greater transportaiton investment<\/li>\n<li>Fix existing roads &amp;\u00a0bridges<\/li>\n<li>Increase public trnsportation accessibility<\/li>\n<li>Fixing congestion is a LOCAL decision that needs LOCAL solutions<\/li>\n<li>Add capacity to critical corridors<\/li>\n<li>Give travelers options of multiple routes<\/li>\n<li>Support denser development for land use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2015\/08\/26\/in-2014-an-improving-economy-and-the-worst-traffic-in-three-decades\/\">WallStreet Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobility.tamu.edu\">Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute 2015 Mobility Study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The TTI\u00a0study is going to factor into 2017- big time. See their recommendations from a few weeks ago below.<\/li>\n<li>The Committee focused on the value of transportation funding- especially, in 1991 20cents to transportation now = 6.8 cents for transportation today\n<ul>\n<li>Chair Simmons pointed out that the state has added funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>7 states recvently indexed gas tax- its trending- big time- even in Republican states<\/li>\n<li>40% of transportation funding should be local government funding\n<ul>\n<li>Collin County Judge&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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":[8,10,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}