{"id":463,"date":"2016-04-01T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/04\/01\/38-billion-cost-to-eliminate-tollroads-4-pieces-informed-intel\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T19:52:00","slug":"38-billion-cost-to-eliminate-tollroads-4-pieces-informed-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/38-billion-cost-to-eliminate-tollroads-4-pieces-informed-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"$38 Billion Cost to Eliminate Tollroads. 4 Pieces Informed Intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TXDOT informed legislators on Wednesday that the cost to eliminate tollraods in Texas is $30 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons behind the $38\u00a0Billion price tag:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$21 Billion in debt held on state and local tollroads + interest and fees<\/li>\n<li>$10 billion in debt with partnerships with private firms + interest and fees<\/li>\n<li>This feeds the arguments of those opposed to government debt &amp; who say local debt is too high<\/li>\n<li>TXDOT has $13.4 Billion in non-toll related debt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/transportation\/article\/Eliminating-tolls-would-cost-state-billions-7218979.php\">Houston Chronicle |\u00a0Eliminating tolls would cost state billions, lawmakers told<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TXDOT informed legislators on Wednesday that the cost to eliminate tollraods in Texas is $30 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons behind the $38\u00a0Billion price tag:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$21 Billion in debt held on state and local tollroads + interest and fees<\/li>\n<li>$10 billion in debt with partnerships with private firms + interest and fees<\/li>\n<li>This feeds the arguments of those opposed to government debt &amp; who say local debt is too high<\/li>\n<li>TXDOT has $13.4 Billion in non-toll related debt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/transportation\/article\/Eliminating-tolls-would-cost-state-billions-7218979.php\">Houston Chronicle |\u00a0Eliminating tolls would&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8,30,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-funding","category-local-government","category-tollroad","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}