{"id":448,"date":"2016-03-16T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/03\/16\/trending-5-recommendations-from-a-transportation-task-force-hint-gas-tax-not-sustainable\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:10:00","slug":"trending-5-recommendations-from-a-transportation-task-force-hint-gas-tax-not-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trending-5-recommendations-from-a-transportation-task-force-hint-gas-tax-not-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"TRENDING. 5 Recommendations from a Transportation Task Force. Hint: Gas Tax not Sustainable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which state&#8217;s transportation system was studied?<\/strong>\u00a0Washington State<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who sat on this task force? <\/strong>16<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>regional\u00a0civic, business and government leaders<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the task force recommend:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regional solutions to big traffic problems like in the puget Sound Area<\/li>\n<li>The gas tax is not sustainable source of funding due to fuel efficiency<\/li>\n<li>Recommend a fee on miles driven as a fair and equitable funding solution\n<ul>\n<li>Compared a fee on miles driven to utilty usage.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;\u201cLike utilities, like your phone bill, like your water rates &#8212; paying for what you use in transportation,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other alternative funding sources considered, not as highly rated, were:\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0tolling<\/li>\n<li>road usage charge<\/li>\n<li>carbon tax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Identified critical gap between state wide transportaion funding and funding at the local level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefuturestaskforce.org\">Transportation Futures Task Force<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.suntimes.com\/sea-news\/7\/79\/277110\/task-force-recommends-new-transportation-authority\">Seattle Sun Times |\u00a0Task force recommends new transportation authority<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/story\/news\/traffic\/2016\/03\/15\/task-force-recommends-new-transportation-authority\/81813606\/\">King 5\u00a0News |\u00a0Task force recommends new transportation authority<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which state&#8217;s transportation system was studied?<\/strong>\u00a0Washington State<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who sat on this task force? <\/strong>16<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>regional\u00a0civic, business and government leaders<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the task force recommend:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regional solutions to big traffic problems like in the puget Sound Area<\/li>\n<li>The gas tax is not sustainable source of funding due to fuel efficiency<\/li>\n<li>Recommend a fee on miles driven as a fair and equitable funding solution\n<ul>\n<li>Compared a fee on miles driven to utilty usage.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;\u201cLike utilities, like your phone&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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":[8,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-local-government","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}