{"id":1034,"date":"2018-05-30T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/05\/30\/1-texas-county-commissioner-court-vote-supporting-high-speed-rail-the-facts-only\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T20:53:00","slug":"1-texas-county-commissioner-court-vote-supporting-high-speed-rail-the-facts-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/1-texas-county-commissioner-court-vote-supporting-high-speed-rail-the-facts-only\/","title":{"rendered":"+1 Texas County Commissioner Court Vote Supporting High Speed Rail. The facts only:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Texas County:<\/strong>\u00a0Brazos County<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brazos County Commissioner Court Dissent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Commissioner\n<ul>\n<li>Commissioner\u00a0Sammy Catalena<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dissent based on:\n<ul>\n<li>Brazos County has no &#8220;dog in the fight&#8221; as the rail will not traverse Brazos County<\/li>\n<li>Concerns of rural landowners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Statements of Brazos County Commissioners in favor of Supporting Texas Central Rail:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Southwest Airlines on the ground,&#8221; will be good for all texans<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;economic boon&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>it will &#8220;allow more students to commute to the Texas A&amp;M University System&#8217;s forthcoming RELLIS Campus&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Economic benefits in the county commissioner court resolution:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$36 billion projected to be generated toward the state&#8217;s economy<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0$2.5 billion in taxes over the next 25 years to be paid<\/li>\n<li>10,000 full-time construction jobs annually during the peak construction period.<\/li>\n<li>1,500 full-time jobs are expected to be created once the train goes into service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theeagle.com\/news\/local\/brazos-county-commissioners-court-votes-to-support-high-speed-rail\/article_a25d70fd-45fc-5de9-b978-baf8a4d40db1.html\">The Eagle |\u00a0Brazos County Commissioners Court passes resolution to support high-speed rail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Texas County:<\/strong>\u00a0Brazos County<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brazos County Commissioner Court Dissent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Commissioner\n<ul>\n<li>Commissioner\u00a0Sammy Catalena<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dissent based on:\n<ul>\n<li>Brazos County has no &#8220;dog in the fight&#8221; as the rail will not traverse Brazos County<\/li>\n<li>Concerns of rural landowners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Statements of Brazos County Commissioners in favor of Supporting Texas Central Rail:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Southwest Airlines on the ground,&#8221; will be good for all texans<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;economic boon&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>it will &#8220;allow more students to commute to the Texas A&amp;M University System&#8217;s\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,3,10,30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-eminent-domain","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}