{"id":61,"date":"2014-12-02T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2014\/12\/02\/shale-roads-lower-speed-limits-more-funding\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:35:00","slug":"shale-roads-lower-speed-limits-more-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/shale-roads-lower-speed-limits-more-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Shale Roads: Lower Speed Limits. More Funding."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roads in oil and gas producing areas of the state are receiving 2 new safety benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By emergency rule TXDOT lowered the speed limits on\u00a0dangerous roads in oil and gas producing areas of the state by as much as 12 mph. \u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The process to lower speed limits can be lengthy and crash data shows higher accident rates on these heavily traveled roads.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>15-20 % of the $1.7 Billion from 2014&#8217;s Prop.1 funding will go to the\u00a0roads in oil and gas producing parts of the state. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2014\/12\/02\/txdot-set-lower-some-speed-limits-drilling-areas\/\">Texas Tribune<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.dot.state.tx.us\/pub\/txdot\/commission\/2014\/1120\/16f.pdf\">TXDOT Minute Order<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roads in oil and gas producing areas of the state are receiving 2 new safety benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By emergency rule TXDOT lowered the speed limits on\u00a0dangerous roads in oil and gas producing areas of the state by as much as 12 mph. \u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The process to lower speed limits can be lengthy and crash data shows higher accident rates on these heavily traveled roads.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>15-20 % of the $1.7 Billion from 2014&#8217;s Prop.1 funding will go to the\u00a0roads in oil and gas producing &#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":[9,8,5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-legislation","category-funding","category-roads","category-rulemaking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}