{"id":358,"date":"2015-12-06T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/12\/06\/east-texas-mayor-vs-toll-road-6-opposition-groups-issues\/"},"modified":"2015-12-06T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T18:01:00","slug":"east-texas-mayor-vs-toll-road-6-opposition-groups-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/east-texas-mayor-vs-toll-road-6-opposition-groups-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Mayor vs. Toll Road. 6 Opposition Groups &#038; Issues."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who?<\/strong>\u00a0Vidor Mayor\u00a0Robert Viator Jr. has &#8220;trust issues&#8221; with the Texas Turnpike Authority proposed 10 mile toll road from Vidor to Beaumont<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does the mayor have trust issues?<\/strong>\u00a0The company altered its projections to add 25 years to reach $9 billion in profits. \u00a0The company projects that it\u00a0will take a total of 75 years for the private toll company to reach $9 billion in profits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What opposition groups and issues are emerging?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Those challenging the project include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vidor Mayor Robert Viator Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick<\/li>\n<li>environmental groups concerned about the Big Thicket National Preserve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The issues challening the project:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the use of eminent domain for the project by the private toll company, if the company partners with TXDOT or a local governmental entity<\/li>\n<li>the corporation has never successfully completed a toll road project\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Environmental Concerns about putting a toll road through Big Thicket National Preserve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theexaminer.com\/stories\/news\/vidor-concerned-about-toll-new-toll-road-could-take-community\">The Examiner The Indendent Voice of SE Texas |\u00a0Vidor concerned about toll new toll road could take on community<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who?<\/strong>\u00a0Vidor Mayor\u00a0Robert Viator Jr. has &#8220;trust issues&#8221; with the Texas Turnpike Authority proposed 10 mile toll road from Vidor to Beaumont<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does the mayor have trust issues?<\/strong>\u00a0The company altered its projections to add 25 years to reach $9 billion in profits. \u00a0The company projects that it\u00a0will take a total of 75 years for the private toll company to reach $9 billion in profits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What opposition groups and issues are emerging?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Those challenging the project include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vidor Mayor&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,30,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-eminent-domain","category-local-government","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}