{"id":789392,"date":"2019-05-19T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=789392"},"modified":"2019-05-20T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T21:00:02","slug":"texas-may-soon-outlaw-red-light-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=789392","title":{"rendered":"Texas May Soon Outlaw Red-Light Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/05\/index-1-150x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-789393\" \/>AUSTIN &#8212; It appears red-light cameras will become a thing of the past in Texas. The state Senate passed House Bill 1631, banning them, by a vote of 23 to 8. Senator Bob Hall of Edgewood sponsored the measure. Hall says &#8220;these camera systems have little effect on road safety &#8212; and have been shown by numerous studies to actually increase the risk of certain types of collisions for drivers in the state.&#8221; Governor Abbott is expected to sign the bill into law. He called for the ban in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; It appears red-light cameras will become a thing of the past in Texas. The state Senate passed House Bill 1631, banning them, by a vote of 23 to 8. Senator Bob Hall of Edgewood sponsored the measure. Hall says &#8220;these camera systems have little effect on road safety &#8212; and have been shown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=789392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas May Soon Outlaw Red-Light Cameras<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":789393,"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-789392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 07:08:10","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\/789392","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789394,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789392\/revisions\/789394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/789393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}