{"id":294,"date":"2015-09-17T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/17\/speaker-straus-applauds-removal-of-toll-lanes\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:12:00","slug":"speaker-straus-applauds-removal-of-toll-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/speaker-straus-applauds-removal-of-toll-lanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Straus Applauds removal of Toll Lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s this about?\u00a0<\/strong>The Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is working on plans to grow 281. Part of their plan was to add new toll lanes to 281.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tolls are very controversial.\u00a0<\/strong>Tolls don&#8217;t\u00a0have favored nation status in Texas. Grass roots groups like Texas TURF were strongly opposed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Speaker commented: \u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Today the Alamo Area MPO took a very positive step toward improving mobility in San Antonio. This vote shows that local and state officials are working together to address our transportation needs and relieve congestion in a responsible way. I want to thank the members of the MPO for taking this meaningful vote, and I look forward to working with them further to begin the expansion of Highway 281.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.state.tx.us\/news\/member\/press-releases\/?id=5695\">Speaker Straus Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s this about?\u00a0<\/strong>The Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is working on plans to grow 281. Part of their plan was to add new toll lanes to 281.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tolls are very controversial.\u00a0<\/strong>Tolls don&#8217;t\u00a0have favored nation status in Texas. Grass roots groups like Texas TURF were strongly opposed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Speaker commented: \u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Today the Alamo Area MPO took a very positive step toward improving mobility in San Antonio. This vote shows that local and state officials are working together to address&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}