{"id":908,"date":"2017-11-21T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/11\/21\/new-kid-on-the-texas-block-transportation-group-to-ease-traffic-jams-fight-tea-party-3-bits-informed-intel\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:46:00","slug":"new-kid-on-the-texas-block-transportation-group-to-ease-traffic-jams-fight-tea-party-3-bits-informed-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/new-kid-on-the-texas-block-transportation-group-to-ease-traffic-jams-fight-tea-party-3-bits-informed-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kid on the Texas Block. Transportation Group to Ease Traffic Jams &#038; Fight Tea Party. 3 Bits Informed Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new group: <\/strong>Texans for Traffic Relief<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is in the new group:\u00a0<\/strong>Business groups, local elected officials &amp;\u00a0highway industry interests<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 key points to know about :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The group is focused on the 4 \u00a0largest metro areas<\/li>\n<li>The group formed in response to frustration from anti-toll activists<\/li>\n<li>Transportation funding is inadequate and Texas needs\u00a0&#8220;Common-sense solutions\u00a0that add to available road money and embrace innovation are crucial to easing congestion&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Texas State Senator Hall response to Texans for Traffic Relief:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0the new group &#8220;will be representing the money boys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/texas-politics\/2017\/11\/20\/new-texas-transportation-group-vows-fight-tea-party-ease-traffic-jams\">Dallas Morning News |New Texas transportation group vows to fight tea party on how to ease traffic jams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new group: <\/strong>Texans for Traffic Relief<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is in the new group:\u00a0<\/strong>Business groups, local elected officials &amp;\u00a0highway industry interests<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 key points to know about :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The group is focused on the 4 \u00a0largest metro areas<\/li>\n<li>The group formed in response to frustration from anti-toll activists<\/li>\n<li>Transportation funding is inadequate and Texas needs\u00a0&#8220;Common-sense solutions\u00a0that add to available road money and embrace innovation are crucial to easing congestion&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Texas State Senator Hall response to\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38,10,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-business-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}