{"id":83,"date":"2015-01-06T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/01\/06\/transportation-funding-a-400-return-on-investment\/"},"modified":"2015-01-06T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T19:25:00","slug":"transportation-funding-a-400-return-on-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/transportation-funding-a-400-return-on-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Transportation Funding: A 400% Return on Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A select joint committee in Georgia studied increasing transportation funding. The committee&#8217;s\u00a0report proposes\u00a0a transportation funding plan that combines tax cuts and tax increases. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most interesting about the report is that for every $1 invested in transportation funding, between $4- $7.80 is returned in economic benefits generated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.curbed.com\/archives\/2015\/01\/02\/new-report-calls-for-legislature-to-find-15b-fund-transit-2.php\">Atlanta Curbed\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mdjonline.com\/view\/full_story\/26308453\/article-Cobb-lawmakers-split-on-report-calling-for-$1-5B-in-funds-for-infrastructure?instance=special%20_coverage_right_column\">Marietta Daily Journal<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/blog\/capitol_vision\/2014\/12\/transportation-funding-key-topic-at-legislative.html\">Atlanta Business Chronicle\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A select joint committee in Georgia studied increasing transportation funding. The committee&#8217;s\u00a0report proposes\u00a0a transportation funding plan that combines tax cuts and tax increases. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most interesting about the report is that for every $1 invested in transportation funding, between $4- $7.80 is returned in economic benefits generated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.curbed.com\/archives\/2015\/01\/02\/new-report-calls-for-legislature-to-find-15b-fund-transit-2.php\">Atlanta Curbed\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}