{"id":472,"date":"2016-04-13T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/04\/13\/5-ways-houston-port-growth-impacts-texas-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T23:00:00","slug":"5-ways-houston-port-growth-impacts-texas-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/5-ways-houston-port-growth-impacts-texas-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways Houston Port Growth Impacts Texas infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Does increased Port of Houston traffic only translate to more cargo ships?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0No, it also means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>strains on local roads with large trucks transporting cargo goods<\/li>\n<li>strains on railroad infrastructure as railroads transport cargo goods<\/li>\n<li>port channel dredging<\/li>\n<li>maintaining sturdy docks<\/li>\n<li>Port Infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What part of the country does the Port of Houston serve?<\/strong>\u00a0The goal is to make the Port of Houston \u00a0&#8220;the distribution hub for the central U.S., from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What questions does Chairman Creighton want answered by the Senate Select Committee on Ports?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Do our port infrastructure and assets have what they need to keep up with demand?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do our roads need taller bridges?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do our waterways need deeper drafts?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the economic impact of the Ports according to Lt. Governor Patrick?<\/strong>\u00a0$277 billion in economic impact in Texas from its ports<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is natural gas growing the Port of Houston?\u00a0<\/strong>$50 billion in natural gas processing plants are coming online producing plastics that will be moved through the Port<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/article\/State-legislators-focus-on-Texas-ports-starting-7244563.php\">Houston Chronicle |\u00a0Lawmakers focus on Texas ports, starting in Houston<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Does increased Port of Houston traffic only translate to more cargo ships?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0No, it also means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>strains on local roads with large trucks transporting cargo goods<\/li>\n<li>strains on railroad infrastructure as railroads transport cargo goods<\/li>\n<li>port channel dredging<\/li>\n<li>maintaining sturdy docks<\/li>\n<li>Port Infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What part of the country does the Port of Houston serve?<\/strong>\u00a0The goal is to make the Port of Houston \u00a0&#8220;the distribution hub for the central U.S., from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,30,43,23,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-lt-gov","category-ports","category-railways","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}