{"id":38,"date":"2014-10-22T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2014\/10\/22\/rep-leach-how-to-fund-transportation\/"},"modified":"2014-10-22T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:42:00","slug":"rep-leach-how-to-fund-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/rep-leach-how-to-fund-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Leach: How to Fund Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TribTalk offers perspectives. Today&#8217;s perspective is from State Representative Jeff Leach. The highlights of his persceptive on transportation funding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prop. 1 is good.<\/li>\n<li>Tollroads are bad.<\/li>\n<li>Long term TXDOT debt is bad.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Transportation funding must be &#8220;aggressively addressed&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Must &#8220;reprioritize transportation funding&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>End budget diversions.<\/li>\n<li>Dedicate to transportation funding some\u00a0existing revenue accounts, like the motor vehicle sales tax &amp;\u00a0auto parts sales tax.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/2014\/10\/20\/a-bold-step-toward-solving-texas-road-woes\/\">[TribTalks]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TribTalk offers perspectives. Today&#8217;s perspective is from State Representative Jeff Leach. The highlights of his persceptive on transportation funding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prop. 1 is good.<\/li>\n<li>Tollroads are bad.<\/li>\n<li>Long term TXDOT debt is bad.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Transportation funding must be &#8220;aggressively addressed&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Must &#8220;reprioritize transportation funding&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>End budget diversions.<\/li>\n<li>Dedicate to transportation funding some\u00a0existing revenue accounts, like the motor&#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":[13,8,10,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-trend","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\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}