{"id":508,"date":"2016-05-22T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/05\/22\/5-ways-politics-get-in-the-way-of-better-roads-better-bridges\/"},"modified":"2016-05-22T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T22:37:00","slug":"5-ways-politics-get-in-the-way-of-better-roads-better-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/5-ways-politics-get-in-the-way-of-better-roads-better-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways Politics Get in the Way of Better Roads. Better Bridges."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>By 2015 the federal transportation funding gap to maintain transportation infrastructure will be\u00a0\u00a0$1.4 trillion gap<\/li>\n<li>U.S. Roads fell from #1 in the world to #11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What and who is to blame?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Obama blames Republicans<\/li>\n<li>Democratic Congressmen blame the stimulus package\n<ul>\n<li>too little transportation funds<\/li>\n<li>too long wait to start projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fear of raising the gas tax according to\u00a0Transportation Secretary<\/li>\n<li>Republicans say a lack of faith in the federal government makes it difficult to raise a gas tax when it collects less revenue with electric vehicles and improved fuel efficiency<\/li>\n<li>Ban on earmarks halted local transportation project funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/279895-how-politics-are-getting-in-the-way-of-better-roads-and-bridges\">The Hill |\u00a0How politics are getting in the way of better roads and bridges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>By 2015 the federal transportation funding gap to maintain transportation infrastructure will be\u00a0\u00a0$1.4 trillion gap<\/li>\n<li>U.S. Roads fell from #1 in the world to #11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What and who is to blame?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Obama blames Republicans<\/li>\n<li>Democratic Congressmen blame the stimulus package\n<ul>\n<li>too little transportation funds<\/li>\n<li>too long wait to start projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fear of raising the gas tax according to\u00a0Transportation Secretary<\/li>\n<li>Republicans say a lack of faith in the federal government makes it difficult to&#8230;<\/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":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}