{"id":418,"date":"2016-02-10T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/02\/10\/local-leader-trend-tx-transportation-funding-should-shift-5-bits-informed-intel\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:15:00","slug":"local-leader-trend-tx-transportation-funding-should-shift-5-bits-informed-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/local-leader-trend-tx-transportation-funding-should-shift-5-bits-informed-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Leader Trend: TX Transportation Funding Should Shift. 5 Bits Informed Intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who is proposing a shift in state transportation funding?<\/strong>\u00a0Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the impetus for his transportation funding proposal?<\/strong>\u00a0Mayor Turner asserts that widening highways adds to more congestion. &#8220;These types of projects are not creating the kind of vibrant, economically strong cities that we all desire&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Under Mayor Turner&#8217;s transportation funding proposal, what should be the focus of transportation funding?<\/strong>\u00a0Shift from automobiles and toward\u00a0alternatives<\/p>\n<p><strong>What transportation alternatives are suggested?\u00a0<\/strong>commuter rail, high-occupancy vehicle lanes, park and rides, and local transit<\/p>\n<p><strong>How have the paradign shift in transportation funding been received?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harris County Commissioner Raddack: &#8221;\u00a0&#8220;This is Texas. People either want to own a horse or a car,&#8221; Radack said. &#8220;The most rapidly growing area, by far, of our region is the unincorporated area of Harris County.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Making a major change in how the money is invested would be a big challenge,&#8221; said Alan Clark, director of transportation planning at the Houston-Galveston Area Council.<\/li>\n<li>Clark Martinson, general manager of the Energy Corridor District, called Turner&#8217;s speech &#8220;the boldest, best thing I have heard from a mayor in the 30 years I&#8217;ve been in Houston.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/transportation\/article\/Turner-calls-for-change-in-transportation-6815475.php\">Houston Chronicle |\u00a0Turner calls for change in transportation philosophy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who is proposing a shift in state transportation funding?<\/strong>\u00a0Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the impetus for his transportation funding proposal?<\/strong>\u00a0Mayor Turner asserts that widening highways adds to more congestion. &#8220;These types of projects are not creating the kind of vibrant, economically strong cities that we all desire&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Under Mayor Turner&#8217;s transportation funding proposal, what should be the focus of transportation funding?<\/strong>\u00a0Shift from automobiles and toward\u00a0alternatives<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8,30,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-funding","category-local-government","category-railways","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}