{"id":4276,"date":"2012-09-20T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:08:23","slug":"7-billion-to-keep-up-n-d-county-township-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4276","title":{"rendered":"$7-Billion To Keep Up N.D. County, Township Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APred.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-646\" title=\"APred\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APred-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A new study says it will take up to $7<br \/>\nbillion to keep up North Dakota&#8217;s county and township roads during<br \/>\nthe next 20 years.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Denver Tolliver is director of the Upper Great Plains<br \/>\nTransportation Institute at North Dakota State University.<\/p>\n<p>He says $834 million is needed during the next two years alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report says almost two-thirds of the money in the next two<br \/>\nyears should go to western North Dakota&#8217;s oil-producing region.<\/p>\n<p>The roads have taken a pounding from truck traffic.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The institute did a similar study in 2010.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tolliver says costs have since risen about 26 percent because of<br \/>\nmore expensive gravel, road paving materials and contracting<br \/>\nexpenses.<\/p>\n<p>The study also anticipates more oil wells being drilled.<br \/>\n\u00a0The study was given Thursday to a state legislative committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A new study says it will take up to $7 billion to keep up North Dakota&#8217;s county and township roads during the next 20 years. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Denver Tolliver is director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. He says $834 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}