{"id":3325,"date":"2025-04-03T22:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2025-04-03T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:23:40","slug":"land-acquisition-and-rail-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/land-acquisition-and-rail-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"land acquisition and rail in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas is a vast state. Passenger rail could make it easier to traverse the great State of Texas. Turns out, to build rail connecting Texas cities, you need to acquire land. And, &nbsp;that\u2019s a challenge. Texans love their land. Texas Central Rail has \u201csecured only about one-quarter of the land needed for the 240-mile rail line, having acquired roughly 1,600 land parcels, including around 500 single-family homes.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago, we talked about a similar situation with the high speed rail project traversing the state of California. They too had a challenge acquiring land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/business\/transportation\/2025\/04\/03\/texas-high-speed-bullet-train-dallas-houston-update\/82790359007\/\">Statesman | Will high-speed bullet train between Dallas and Houston ever become reality?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas is a vast state. Passenger rail could make it easier to traverse the great State of Texas. Turns out, to build rail connecting Texas cities, you need to acquire land. And, &nbsp;that\u2019s a challenge. Texans love their land. Texas Central Rail has \u201csecured only about one-quarter of the land needed for the 240-mile rail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}