{"id":386,"date":"2016-01-15T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/01\/15\/trend-eastern-state-leader-no-votes-on-new-tolls\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:17:00","slug":"trend-eastern-state-leader-no-votes-on-new-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-eastern-state-leader-no-votes-on-new-tolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend: Eastern State Leader. No Votes on New Tolls."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I thought east coast states ran on tollways, where is there a vote moratorium?<\/strong>\u00a0Connecticut<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is pushing for no new toll votes?<\/strong>\u00a0The Senate leader<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the rational?<\/strong>\u00a0First, the public needs to vote to ensure dedicated transportation funding before the Legisalture votes on tolls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the transportation fudning situation in Connecticut?<\/strong>\u00a0The Governor is proposing a 30 year, $100 billion transportation funding plan that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>raise state sales tax by 1\/2 a penny to 6.85%<\/li>\n<li>increase the gasoline tax by 2 cents per gallon per year for 7 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/politics\/hc-no-toll-votes-until-2017-0115-20160114-story.html\">Hartford Courant |\u00a0Senate President: No Votes On Tolls Until 2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I thought east coast states ran on tollways, where is there a vote moratorium?<\/strong>\u00a0Connecticut<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is pushing for no new toll votes?<\/strong>\u00a0The Senate leader<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the rational?<\/strong>\u00a0First, the public needs to vote to ensure dedicated transportation funding before the Legisalture votes on tolls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the transportation fudning situation in Connecticut?<\/strong>\u00a0The Governor is proposing a 30 year, $100 billion transportation funding plan that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>raise state sales tax by 1\/2 a penny to 6.85%<\/li>\n<li>increase&#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":[8,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}