{"id":540,"date":"2016-07-06T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/07\/06\/economic-impact-of-transportation-funding-in-texas-by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2016-07-06T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T20:31:00","slug":"economic-impact-of-transportation-funding-in-texas-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/economic-impact-of-transportation-funding-in-texas-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Impact of Transportation Funding in Texas. By the Numbers."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>$60 Billion \u00a0TXDoT&#8217;s \u00a05-10 year estimate to improve urban connectivity<\/li>\n<li>$20 Billion \u00a0TXDOT&#8217;s estimate to improve\u00a0statewide connections &amp;\u00a0\u00a0border-trade projects<\/li>\n<li>$516 annual cost per car\u00a0per year for poorly maintained road damage, but in Texas it is more:\n<ul>\n<li>$838 in San\u00a0Antonio<\/li>\n<li>$815 in El Paso<\/li>\n<li>$772 in Houston<\/li>\n<li>$716 in McAllen<\/li>\n<li>$549 in Corpus Christi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>$70.6 billion economic impact of tourism in Texas for 2014<\/li>\n<li>630,000 direct Texas jobs in tourism in 2014<\/li>\n<li>$6 billion in state and local tax revenues for Texas tourism in 2014<\/li>\n<li>68% of transportation jobs are construction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/comptroller.texas.gov\/fiscalnotes\/june-july2016\/road-finance-p2.php\">Fiscal Notes |\u00a0Texas Road Finance, Part II: Economic Impacts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>$60 Billion \u00a0TXDoT&#8217;s \u00a05-10 year estimate to improve urban connectivity<\/li>\n<li>$20 Billion \u00a0TXDOT&#8217;s estimate to improve\u00a0statewide connections &amp;\u00a0\u00a0border-trade projects<\/li>\n<li>$516 annual cost per car\u00a0per year for poorly maintained road damage, but in Texas it is more:\n<ul>\n<li>$838 in San\u00a0Antonio<\/li>\n<li>$815 in El Paso<\/li>\n<li>$772 in Houston<\/li>\n<li>$716 in McAllen<\/li>\n<li>$549 in Corpus Christi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>$70.6 billion economic impact of tourism in Texas for 2014<\/li>\n<li>630,000 direct Texas jobs in tourism in 2014<\/li>\n<li>$6 billion in state and&#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":[8,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-roads","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}