{"id":39,"date":"2014-10-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2014\/10\/27\/tab-the-cost-of-underfunding-transportation\/"},"modified":"2014-10-27T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T11:00:00","slug":"tab-the-cost-of-underfunding-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tab-the-cost-of-underfunding-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"TAB: The Cost of Underfunding Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Hammond writes that underfunding transportation imposes a litany of costs on Texans. These costs are:<\/p>\n<p>Wear and tear from driving on deficient roads: $25.1Billion\/year. \u00a0This amounts to\u00a0$1,740 per year per person in Dallas; $1,850 for Houstonians; $1,780 in San Antonio; and $1,655 in Austin. <a href=\"http:\/\/m.themonitor.com\/opinion\/commentary-we-need-a-new-funding-source-to-battle-road\/article_96b0ee6c-5bd5-11e4-8cd7-0017a43b2370.html?mode=jqm\">[McAllen Monitor]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Hammond writes that underfunding transportation imposes a litany of costs on Texans. These costs are:<\/p>\n<p>Wear and tear from driving on deficient roads: $25.1Billion\/year. \u00a0This amounts to\u00a0$1,740 per year per person in Dallas; $1,850 for Houstonians; $1,780 in San Antonio; and $1,655 in Austin. <a href=\"http:\/\/m.themonitor.com\/opinion\/commentary-we-need-a-new-funding-source-to-battle-road\/article_96b0ee6c-5bd5-11e4-8cd7-0017a43b2370.html?mode=jqm\">[McAllen Monitor]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}