{"id":417395673,"date":"2018-03-24T23:14:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=417395673"},"modified":"2018-03-24T23:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:14:33","slug":"who-pays-for-roads-a-state-by-state-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=417395673","title":{"rendered":"WHO PAYS FOR ROADS? A STATE-BY-STATE LOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-> State Smart Transportation Initiative reports all roads are subsidized, but to wildly varying degrees in each state. A new state-by-state study from the Tax Foundation found that user fees only cover a fraction of total road costs, ranging from 12% in Alaska to 76% in Hawaii. (How Are Your State\u2019s Roads Funded?: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2vNU2L9) While the report does not give a national figure, a previous version estimated user fees cover just 50% of road costs. https:\/\/bit.ly\/2wGpd7l<br \/>\nfrom CenterLines, the e-newsletter of the National Center for Bicycling &#038; Walking.<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: Maryland share of roads paid by user fees and taxes is 66.9%.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-> State Smart Transportation Initiative reports all roads are subsidized, but to wildly varying degrees in each state. A new state-by-state study from the Tax Foundation found that user fees only cover a fraction of total road costs, ranging from 12% in Alaska to 76% in Hawaii. (How Are Your State\u2019s Roads Funded?: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2vNU2L9) While &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=417395673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WHO PAYS FOR ROADS? A STATE-BY-STATE LOOK&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417395673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417395673","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=417395673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417395673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417395673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417395673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417395673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}