{"id":952,"date":"2018-02-08T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/02\/08\/funding-state-transportation-projects-via-ride-share-tax-deep-in-the-old-south\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:48:00","slug":"funding-state-transportation-projects-via-ride-share-tax-deep-in-the-old-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/funding-state-transportation-projects-via-ride-share-tax-deep-in-the-old-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding State Transportation Projects via Ride Share Tax. Deep in the Old South."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State:<\/strong>\u00a0Virginia<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ride share tax:<\/strong>\u00a0extending state and regional sales taxes to ride services<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ride share tax revenues will be dedicated to:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;$21 million a year for mass transit systems across Virginia, replacing the use of state-backed bonds to pay for new buses&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>$154 million a year for the ailing Washington-area Metro system<\/li>\n<li>&#8221;\u00a0one-time bond payment of $50 million as Virginia\u2019s share of a $150 million pledge with Maryland and Washington to collect an equal share of federal funding for Metro if Congress reauthorizes the expiring Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The bill:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?ses=181&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb856\">Virginia\u00a0Senate Bill 856 (2018)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/government-politics\/general-assembly\/senate-panel-backs-extending-sales-tax-to-services-like-uber\/article_cc0d4e41-e2b8-5e28-9e0c-f0f73bf0309f.html\">Richmond Times Dispatch |\u00a0Senate panel backs extending Virginia and regional sales tax to services like Uber and Lyft for mass transit funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State:<\/strong>\u00a0Virginia<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ride share tax:<\/strong>\u00a0extending state and regional sales taxes to ride services<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ride share tax revenues will be dedicated to:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;$21 million a year for mass transit systems across Virginia, replacing the use of state-backed bonds to pay for new buses&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>$154 million a year for the ailing Washington-area Metro system<\/li>\n<li>&#8221;\u00a0one-time bond payment of $50 million as Virginia\u2019s share of a $150 million pledge with Maryland and Washington to collect an equal share of federal funding\u2026<\/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":[8,10,30,50,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-public-transit","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}