{"id":299,"date":"2015-09-23T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/23\/5-points-from-gov-abbott-transportation-talk-this-week\/"},"modified":"2015-09-23T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T22:17:00","slug":"5-points-from-gov-abbott-transportation-talk-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/5-points-from-gov-abbott-transportation-talk-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Points from Gov. Abbott Transportation Talk this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong>New Governor&#8217;s\u00a0Directive to TXDOT. <\/strong>It is\u00a0less than an excutive order, more than cocktail conversation, but will:\n<ol>\n<li>Require the identification of\u00a0the state&#8217;s most congested chokepoints<\/li>\n<li>Address the chokepoints by working with transportation planners and local communities<\/li>\n<li>Goals: reduce congestion &amp;\u00a0get new roads built as soon as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Building roads is <strong>economic development <\/strong>&amp; <strong>creates jobs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Congestion has an economic impact <\/strong>of\u00a0over $1,000 for the\u00a0average \u201crush hour\u201d commuter\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Texas has dedicated\u00a0<strong>more than $4 billion a year <\/strong>to build more roads without raising taxes, fees, tolls or debt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Road construction needs trained workers too.\u00a0<\/strong>Texas is making\u00a04-year degrees\u00a0more affordable &amp; accessible.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/press-release\/21453\">Governor Abbott:\u00a0Governor Abbott Addresses Transportation &amp; Infrastructure Summit, Issues Directive To Transportation Commission To Reduce Congestion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong>New Governor&#8217;s\u00a0Directive to TXDOT. <\/strong>It is\u00a0less than an excutive order, more than cocktail conversation, but will:\n<ol>\n<li>Require the identification of\u00a0the state&#8217;s most congested chokepoints<\/li>\n<li>Address the chokepoints by working with transportation planners and local communities<\/li>\n<li>Goals: reduce congestion &amp;\u00a0get new roads built as soon as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Building roads is <strong>economic development <\/strong>&amp; <strong>creates jobs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Congestion has an economic impact <\/strong>of\u00a0over $1,000 for the\u00a0average \u201crush hour\u201d&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-governor","category-roads","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}