{"id":649,"date":"2016-11-30T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/11\/30\/editorial-speed-limits-3-reasons-speed-limits-should-be-under-local-control\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:01:00","slug":"editorial-speed-limits-3-reasons-speed-limits-should-be-under-local-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/editorial-speed-limits-3-reasons-speed-limits-should-be-under-local-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial. Speed Limits. 3 Reasons Speed Limits Should be Under Local Control."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article117787628.html\">Ft. Worth Star Telegram editorial<\/a> lays out 3 reasons speed limits should be controlled locally and not by Austin lawmakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the state lowers the default residential speed limit, there will be no funding for additional patrols<\/li>\n<li>The city would benefit from assessing street safety to determine appropriate speeds<\/li>\n<li>The city can already lower the speed limit itself, so why is a Ft. Worth citycouncil member pushing this idea?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article117787628.html\">Ft. Worth Star Telegram editorial<\/a> lays out 3 reasons speed limits should be controlled locally and not by Austin lawmakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the state lowers the default residential speed limit, there will be no funding for additional patrols<\/li>\n<li>The city would benefit from assessing street safety to determine appropriate speeds<\/li>\n<li>The city can already lower the speed limit itself, so why is a Ft. Worth citycouncil member pushing this idea?<\/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":[36,30,5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-local-government","category-roads","category-transportation-safety","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}