{"id":357,"date":"2015-12-04T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/12\/04\/private-toll-road-to-utilize-agreements-to-condemn-land\/"},"modified":"2015-12-04T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T21:18:00","slug":"private-toll-road-to-utilize-agreements-to-condemn-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/private-toll-road-to-utilize-agreements-to-condemn-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Toll Road to Utilize Agreements to Condemn Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weren&#8217;t private toll roads stripped of their eminent domain power by the 2015 Texas Legislature?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, how is a private toll road near Beaumont building a new toll road?<\/strong>\u00a0The private toll comapny asked local governments to enter into an intrerlocular agreement. If, eminent domain needs to be exercised, it will be through the local governmental entities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the reception to the private tollroad in SE Texas?<\/strong>\u00a0SE Texas appears to have learned from 2014 Dallas area defeat of the Texas Turnpike Authority. A group,\u00a0Citizens in Southeast Texas, has been organized to oppose the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the issue just eminent domain?<\/strong>\u00a0No, the proposed toll will also run through\u00a0Big Thicket National Preserve, drawing concerns from conservationists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panews.com\/2015\/12\/02\/big-thicket-national-preserve-threatened-by-proposed-105-toll-road\/\">Port Arthur The News |\u00a0Big Thicket National Preserve threatened by proposed 105 toll road\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weren&#8217;t private toll roads stripped of their eminent domain power by the 2015 Texas Legislature?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, how is a private toll road near Beaumont building a new toll road?<\/strong>\u00a0The private toll comapny asked local governments to enter into an intrerlocular agreement. If, eminent domain needs to be exercised, it will be through the local governmental entities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the reception to the private tollroad in SE Texas?<\/strong>\u00a0SE Texas appears to have learned from 2014 Dallas area defeat of the Texas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-local-government","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}