{"id":79,"date":"2015-01-03T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/01\/03\/the-future-of-toll-roads-by-looking-back-at-trans-texas-corridor\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:50:00","slug":"the-future-of-toll-roads-by-looking-back-at-trans-texas-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/the-future-of-toll-roads-by-looking-back-at-trans-texas-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Toll Roads By Looking Back at Trans Texas Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TransTexas Corridor met its end by way of negative public reaction. Texas still needs to build more roads and improve current roads. So what&#8217;s happened since Trans Texas was proposed?\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">From 2001 and 2012 Texas built\u00a0more than 6,600 new highway miles, with and without tolls.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">More than any other state.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">\u00a0it\u2019s among<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/texas\/statements\/2014\/jan\/28\/rick-perry\/texas-change-highway-miles-not-no-1-adjusted-size\/\" style=\"color:rgb(210,35,42);text-decoration:underline;\">\u00a0the lowest in the country<\/a>\u00a0when adjusted for Texas\u2019 fast-growing population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These interests continue to compete for transportation projects\n<ul>\n<li>Worsening traffic<\/li>\n<li>Concerns that the state\u2019s strong economic performance could falter<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Business concerns that\u00a0the state\u2019s road network is\u00a0unmanageable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/what-happened-to-rick-perrys-plans-for-toll-roads.html\">Governing Magazine and Texas Tribune<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TransTexas Corridor met its end by way of negative public reaction. Texas still needs to build more roads and improve current roads. So what&#8217;s happened since Trans Texas was proposed?\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">From 2001 and 2012 Texas built\u00a0more than 6,600 new highway miles, with and without tolls.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">More than any other state.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;\">\u00a0it\u2019s among<a href=\"http:\/\/ww...<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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":[8,10,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}