{"id":327,"date":"2015-10-23T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/10\/23\/lege-trend-state-switches-away-from-user-fees-to-fund-transportation-to-rely-on\/"},"modified":"2015-10-23T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T20:18:00","slug":"lege-trend-state-switches-away-from-user-fees-to-fund-transportation-to-rely-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-state-switches-away-from-user-fees-to-fund-transportation-to-rely-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: State Switches Away From User Fees to Fund Transportation to Rely on &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan legislature is poised to approve a transportation funding shift from user fees to general revenue funded transportation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does\u00a0Michigan&#8217;s new transportation funding bill look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1.2-billion road funding plan<\/li>\n<li>$600 million in general fund dollars being dedicated to roads each year, starting in 2020-21<\/li>\n<li>It would &#8220;vault Michigan from 17th to 5th in the nation in terms of how much general fund money it earmarks for transportation&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the opposition?\u00a0<\/strong>Democrats, the chief opponents, say it moves money from education &amp; public safety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why the move away from user fees?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;user fee revenues have diminished\u00a0as more fuel-efficient and alternative fuel vehicles like hybrids and electrics&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Inflation has also held down user fee revenues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2015\/10\/22\/michigan-poised-big-shift-how-pays-roads\/74379470\/\">Detroit Free Press |\u00a0Michigan poised for big shift in how it pays for roads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan legislature is poised to approve a transportation funding shift from user fees to general revenue funded transportation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does\u00a0Michigan&#8217;s new transportation funding bill look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1.2-billion road funding plan<\/li>\n<li>$600 million in general fund dollars being dedicated to roads each year, starting in 2020-21<\/li>\n<li>It would &#8220;vault Michigan from 17th to 5th in the nation in terms of how much general fund money it earmarks for transportation&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the opposition?\u00a0<\/strong>Democrats, 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}