{"id":805,"date":"2017-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/06\/29\/record-year-of-truck-bridge-collisions-3-bits-informed-intel-from-houston\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:00:00","slug":"record-year-of-truck-bridge-collisions-3-bits-informed-intel-from-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/record-year-of-truck-bridge-collisions-3-bits-informed-intel-from-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Record year of Truck Bridge Collisions. 3 Bits Informed Intel from Houston."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Houston seeing more trucks hitting bridges this year?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>good economy means more truck traffic<\/li>\n<li>the Port of Houston traffic is up 11% since 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What transportation options are available?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TXDOT points to improving roads outside the Loop to keep trucks out of the city core<\/li>\n<li>Researchers at Texas A&amp;M are working on laser warning systems to keep overheigth trucks from hitting bridges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How many truck &#8211; bridge hits have occurred in 2017?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>22<\/li>\n<li>The record, 30, was set in 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/2017\/06\/27\/206450\/houston-poised-for-record-year-of-truck-collisions-with-bridges\/\">Houston Public Radio |\u00a0Houston Poised for Record Year of Truck Collisions with Bridges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Houston seeing more trucks hitting bridges this year?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>good economy means more truck traffic<\/li>\n<li>the Port of Houston traffic is up 11% since 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What transportation options are available?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TXDOT points to improving roads outside the Loop to keep trucks out of the city core<\/li>\n<li>Researchers at Texas A&amp;M are working on laser warning systems to keep overheigth trucks from hitting bridges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How many truck &#8211; bridge hits have occurred in 2017?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>22<\/li>\n<li>The record, 30, was set in 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/2017\/06\/27\/206450\/houston-poised-for-record-year-of-truck-collisions-with-bridges\/\">Houston Public Radio\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,23,5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-ports","category-roads","category-transportation-safety","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}