{"id":98,"date":"2015-01-22T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/01\/22\/chair-houghton-roadways-still-need-more-funding-options\/"},"modified":"2015-01-22T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T22:10:00","slug":"chair-houghton-roadways-still-need-more-funding-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/chair-houghton-roadways-still-need-more-funding-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair Houghton: Roadways Still Need More Funding Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What transportation funding options does Texas have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bond issues<\/li>\n<li>Public-private partnerships and<\/li>\n<li>Massive voter support last November for using $1.7 billion from the state&#8217;s Rainy Day Fund<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TXDOT Chairman Houghton says it&#8217;s not enough. What options did he offer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He avoided talk of the gas tax<\/li>\n<li>He supports solutions that\u00a0&#8220;will require new thinking, planning and new funding.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/Official-Gridlock-Growth-Overwhelming-Texas-Highways-288727751.html\">NBCDFW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What transportation funding options does Texas have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bond issues<\/li>\n<li>Public-private partnerships and<\/li>\n<li>Massive voter support last November for using $1.7 billion from the state&#8217;s Rainy Day Fund<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TXDOT Chairman Houghton says it&#8217;s not enough. What options did he offer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He avoided talk of the gas tax<\/li>\n<li>He supports solutions that\u00a0&#8220;will require new thinking, planning and new funding.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/lo...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}