{"id":113922971,"date":"2008-08-11T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=113922971"},"modified":"2008-08-11T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:16:11","slug":"move-by-transportation-board-angers-some-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=113922971","title":{"rendered":"Move by transportation board angers some politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move by the Ken Ulman-led Baltimore Regional Transportation Board to designate $340 million in future state transportation funding for mass transit projects has raised the ire of some politicians.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut last week, officials who represent Howard&#8217;s rural areas decried the change, saying it was unfair for their constituents to pay gasoline taxes to fund mass transit that they rarely use.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;Some people feel we can build our way out of this by building more roads, but that&#8217;s a shortsighted focus,&quot; Ulman said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The bottom line in all this is the public wants options,&quot; he said. &quot;We see it from the petitions we get. They want a [transit] system that works, especially in the Baltimore region.&quot;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/howard\/bal-ho.politics10aug10,0,2171040.story\">https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/howard\/bal-ho.politics10aug10,0,2171040.story<\/a>oldId.20080811131611259<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move by the Ken Ulman-led Baltimore Regional Transportation Board to designate $340 million in future state transportation funding for mass transit projects has raised the ire of some politicians. &#8230; But last week, officials who represent Howard&#8217;s rural areas decried the change, saying it was unfair for their constituents to pay gasoline taxes to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=113922971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Move by transportation board angers some politicians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113922971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113922971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113922971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113922971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113922971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113922971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113922971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}