{"id":287082,"date":"2013-12-30T17:58:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T23:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=287082"},"modified":"2013-12-31T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T23:40:48","slug":"txdot-faces-funding-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=287082","title":{"rendered":"TxDOT Faces Funding Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=287083\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-287083\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/12\/thumb_TxDot1-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_TxDot\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-287083\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Funding road construction and maintenance is emerging as an issue in Texas the next couple of years.   Both Democrats and Republicans are pledging to increase sources for the cash-strapped Texas Department of Transportation.  Larry Krantz with TxDOT&#8217;s Tyler District office tells KETK, &#8220;Having a predictable and sustainable funding source of any kind is vital to being able to plan for a system long-term.  If you know how much money you&#8217;re gonna have year over year, it makes prioritizing projects and planning projects that much easier.&#8221; But Krantz says maintenance costs often drive budgets through the roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Funding road construction and maintenance is emerging as an issue in Texas the next couple of years. Both Democrats and Republicans are pledging to increase sources for the cash-strapped Texas Department of Transportation. Larry Krantz with TxDOT&#8217;s Tyler District office tells KETK, &#8220;Having a predictable and sustainable funding source of any kind is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=287082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TxDOT Faces Funding Challenges<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 14:11:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287084,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287082\/revisions\/287084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}