{"id":75,"date":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/01\/03\/south-texas-energy-economic-roundtable-increase-eagle-ford-road-funding\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","slug":"south-texas-energy-economic-roundtable-increase-eagle-ford-road-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/south-texas-energy-economic-roundtable-increase-eagle-ford-road-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"South Texas Energy &#038; Economic Roundtable:  Increase Eagle Ford Road Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Texas Energy &amp; Economic Roundtable sent a letter to TXDOT calling on more Prop 1 transportation funding dollars to support road improvements in Eagle Ford and Permian Basin oil producing regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Letter highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">\u201cSouth Texas county judges, mayors and all elected officials, along with the oil and natural gas industry, put a premium on safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">Increase in\u00a0accidents in the region<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">Roads were not designed to withstand the increased activity<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">An investment in South Texas roads will help sustain long term economic development in a region driving the state\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">Only 15% of funds from Prop 1 will fund\u00a0Energy Sector roads, &amp; this should be reconsidered \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fuelfix.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/23\/industry-group-wants-to-see-more-road-money-for-oil-patch\/\">Fuel Fix<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Texas Energy &amp; Economic Roundtable sent a letter to TXDOT calling on more Prop 1 transportation funding dollars to support road improvements in Eagle Ford and Permian Basin oil producing regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Letter highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">\u201cSouth Texas county judges, mayors and all elected officials, along with the oil and natural gas industry, put a premium on safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">Incr&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}