{"id":517,"date":"2016-06-02T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/06\/02\/republican-state-chooses-road-bonds-gives-governor-more-power\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T20:05:00","slug":"republican-state-chooses-road-bonds-gives-governor-more-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/republican-state-chooses-road-bonds-gives-governor-more-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican State Chooses Road Bonds. Gives Governor More Power."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOW:<\/strong>\u00a0South Carolina legislature chose bond funding for transportation by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allocating\u00a0$216 million in recurring funding for $2.3 billion in bonds over 10 years<\/li>\n<li>Freeing up state funds to repair roads, interstates, and bridges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHY did South Carolina opt for bonding?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>399 deficient bridges<\/li>\n<li>The Governor is granted more power to appoint trasnportation commissioners, removing power from the joint legislative panel that selects commissioners<\/li>\n<li>The legislature had the backing of the state&#8217;s chamber of commerce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/06\/01\/road-funding-dot-reform-bill-headed-haleys-desk\/85255970\/\">Greenville Online |\u00a0Road-funding, DOT reform bill headed to Haley&#8217;s desk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOW:<\/strong>\u00a0South Carolina legislature chose bond funding for transportation by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allocating\u00a0$216 million in recurring funding for $2.3 billion in bonds over 10 years<\/li>\n<li>Freeing up state funds to repair roads, interstates, and bridges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHY did South Carolina opt for bonding?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>399 deficient bridges<\/li>\n<li>The Governor is granted more power to appoint trasnportation commissioners, removing power from the joint legislative panel that selects commissioners<\/li>\n<li>The legislature had the backing of the state&#8217;s&#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":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}