{"id":372,"date":"2015-12-18T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/12\/18\/lege-addressing-bridge-safety-and-efficiency-through-economic-inspectors\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:18:00","slug":"lege-addressing-bridge-safety-and-efficiency-through-economic-inspectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-addressing-bridge-safety-and-efficiency-through-economic-inspectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege: Addressing Bridge Safety and Efficiency Through Economic Inspectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How did addressing a business interest help bridge traffic flow problems?<\/strong>\u00a0Senate Bill 797\/House Bill 979 from 2015 created a grant program to fund pay for more agricultural inspectors at Texas&#8217; border bridges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The grant fund program helps the agriculture business and the traffic flow on the bridges?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, by not slowing bridge traffic with understaffed agriculture inspectors, the congestion at international trade bridges is alleviated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does the money flow?<\/strong>\u00a0The Texas Department of Agriculture Trade Agricultural Inspection Grant Program\u00a0awarded a grant to the\u00a0South Texas Assets Consortium that in turn funds more agriculture inspectors for the international trade bridges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/riograndeguardian.com\/state-provides-funding-for-more-border-bridge-ag-inspectors\/\">Rio Grande Guardian |\u00a0STATE PROVIDES FUNDING FOR MORE BORDER BRIDGE AG INSPECTORS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How did addressing a business interest help bridge traffic flow problems?<\/strong>\u00a0Senate Bill 797\/House Bill 979 from 2015 created a grant program to fund pay for more agricultural inspectors at Texas&#8217; border bridges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The grant fund program helps the agriculture business and the traffic flow on the bridges?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, by not slowing bridge traffic with understaffed agriculture inspectors, the congestion at international trade bridges is alleviated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does the money flow?<\/strong>\u00a0The Texas Department of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-funding","category-ports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}