{"id":22720,"date":"2017-06-28T19:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22720"},"modified":"2017-06-28T19:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:03:20","slug":"highways-getting-some-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22720","title":{"rendered":"Highways getting some attention?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Welcome aboard, Amarillo City Councilman Eddy Sauer, in the campaign to dress up our public rights-of-way.<\/p>\n<p>Sauer recent went to Waco and then posted this item on social media: &#8220;I&#8217;m committed to cleaning up our highways and making our city more inviting. The I-40 and I-27 corridors are great marketing tools for Amarillo. We have a great city and a great opportunity and we need to take advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was struck, apparently, by the appearance of a sign greeting motorists entering the city.<\/p>\n<p>I drive through the I-40\/27 interchange roughly once a week and my hair still bristles when I notice its shabby appearance. A former Texas Department of Transportation actually told me once that the state opted to let &#8220;natural&#8221; flora grow rather than spend money to dress it up and make it more visually appealing. I believe I laughed out loud when he told me that; he took offense at my reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Ginger Nelson has vowed to work out an agreement between the city and the state for a joint maintenance project that dresses up these rights-of-way.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor now appears to have at least one ally on the City Council. Maybe more of them will emerge. One can hope.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome aboard, Amarillo City Councilman Eddy Sauer, in the campaign to dress up our public rights-of-way. Sauer recent went to Waco and then posted this item on social media: &#8220;I&#8217;m committed to cleaning up our highways and making our city more inviting. The I-40 and I-27 corridors are great marketing tools for Amarillo. We have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Highways getting some attention?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[288,2301,2303,4936],"class_list":["post-22720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-interstate-40","tag-interstate-4027-interchange","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22721,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions\/22721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}