{"id":426,"date":"2016-02-20T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/02\/20\/txdot-studying-elimination-of-tolls\/"},"modified":"2016-02-20T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T21:51:00","slug":"txdot-studying-elimination-of-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/txdot-studying-elimination-of-tolls\/","title":{"rendered":"TXDOT Studying Elimination of Tolls."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did TXDOT come up with eliminating tolls on their own?<\/strong>\u00a0No, it is a legisltive mandate from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB2612\">HB 2612 by Pickett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do tolls and the Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute estimate, that Texas needs\u00a0of $5 Billion more per year in transportation funding, correlate?<\/strong>\u00a0The $5 billion per year funding shortage assumed that Texas would receive toll revenue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/story\/news\/2016\/02\/16\/txdot-begins-look-axing-tolls\/80425666\/\">El Paso Times |\u00a0TxDOT begins look at axing tolls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did TXDOT come up with eliminating tolls on their own?<\/strong>\u00a0No, it is a legisltive mandate from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB2612\">HB 2612 by Pickett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do tolls and the Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute estimate, that Texas needs\u00a0of $5 Billion more per year in transportation funding, correlate?<\/strong>\u00a0The $5 billion per year funding shortage assumed that Texas would receive toll revenue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/story\/news\/2016\/02\/16\/txdot-begins-look-axing-tolls\/80425666\/\">El Paso Times |\u00a0TxDOT begins look at axing tolls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-funding","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}