{"id":302,"date":"2015-09-24T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/24\/trend-2-texas-senators-continue-opposition-to-toll-roads\/"},"modified":"2015-09-24T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T21:02:00","slug":"trend-2-texas-senators-continue-opposition-to-toll-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-2-texas-senators-continue-opposition-to-toll-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend: 2 Texas Senators Continue Opposition to Toll Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which road project?<\/strong>\u00a0LBJ Freeway expansion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which Senators? <\/strong>Both<strong> Senator Van Taylor<\/strong> and <strong>Senator Bob Hall<\/strong> reiterated their<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>opposition to\u00a0the use of toll roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do local transportation officials say?\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0transportation director for the North Central Texas Council of Governments also wants pay-as-you go and not tolls to expand LBJ. But, the Council needs $1.4 Billion for the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Bob Hall&#8217;s comment:<\/strong>\u00a0if two-thirds of the project can be built without tolls, why not the other third?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/20150923-officials-agree-on-lbj-east-design-features-but-not-funding.ece\">Dallas Morning News |\u00a0Officials agree on LBJ East design features but not funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which road project?<\/strong>\u00a0LBJ Freeway expansion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which Senators? <\/strong>Both<strong> Senator Van Taylor<\/strong> and <strong>Senator Bob Hall<\/strong> reiterated their<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>opposition to\u00a0the use of toll roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do local transportation officials say?\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0transportation director for the North Central Texas Council of Governments also wants pay-as-you go and not tolls to expand LBJ. But, the Council needs $1.4 Billion for the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Bob Hall&#8217;s comment:<\/strong>\u00a0if two-thirds of the project can be built without tolls, why not the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}