{"id":1481,"date":"2014-10-27T14:21:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:21:43","slug":"gridlocked-tackling-texas-transportation-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/gridlocked-tackling-texas-transportation-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIDLOCKED &#8211; Tackling Texas Transportation Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supply and demand impacts all of us on the highways, whether in the country and in the cities.\u00a0 Fuel costs have tripled, but the gas tax at $1.10 per gallon has STAYED THE SAME since 1991.\u00a0 Because of inflation we have less &amp; less money available to pay for roads and bridges.\u00a0 Funding for new roads has not kept pace with the population growth, so we have gridlocks &amp; grows worse each year.\u00a0 Commuter trains help a bit as does carpooling and telework.\u00a0\u00a0 It will take a combination of these + new construction to work out way out of this dilemna according to\u00a0 Ginger Goodin,\u00a0 senior research engineer at the Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute at College Station, TX.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supply and demand impacts all of us on the highways, whether in the country and in the cities.\u00a0 Fuel costs have tripled, but the gas tax at $1.10 per gallon has STAYED THE SAME since 1991.\u00a0 Because of inflation we have less &amp; less money available to pay for roads and bridges.\u00a0 Funding for new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}