{"id":72,"date":"2014-12-18T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2014\/12\/18\/collin-county-city-leaders-toll-lanes-are-our-current-solution-to-transportation-funding\/"},"modified":"2014-12-18T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:44:00","slug":"collin-county-city-leaders-toll-lanes-are-our-current-solution-to-transportation-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/collin-county-city-leaders-toll-lanes-are-our-current-solution-to-transportation-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin County &#038; City Leaders: Toll Lanes Are Our Current Solution to Transportation Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explosive growth in North Texas has meant more strain on limited transportation funding. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Collin County transportation funding solutions are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Toll HOV lanes or new lanes on existing roadways<\/li>\n<li>Local residents oppose it, but it&#8217;s the only way to get additional funding until more state transportation funding happens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collin County Officials Point to the Followign Transportation Funding Problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;state budget dedicated to road funding has decreased from about 33 percent to about 9 percent&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient fuel tax revenue from fuel efficient cars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impactnews.com\/dfw-metro\/plano\/collin-county,-city-leaders-seek-more-road-funding_1\/\">Community Impact for Collin County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explosive growth in North Texas has meant more strain on limited transportation funding. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Collin County transportation funding solutions are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Toll HOV lanes or new lanes on existing roadways<\/li>\n<li>Local residents oppose it, but it&#8217;s the only way to get additional funding until more state transportation funding happens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collin County Officials Point to the Followign Transportation Funding Problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;state budget dedicated to road funding h&#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":[8,10,12,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-local","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}