{"id":1070,"date":"2018-07-18T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/07\/18\/new-white-paper-from-the-right-4-reasons-high-speed-rail-wont-work-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:32:00","slug":"new-white-paper-from-the-right-4-reasons-high-speed-rail-wont-work-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/new-white-paper-from-the-right-4-reasons-high-speed-rail-wont-work-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"New White Paper from the Right 4 Reasons High Speed Rail Won&#39;t Work in Texas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Whose study?<\/strong>Heartland Institute<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Reasons High Speed Rail Won&#8217;t Work in Texas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;cost estimate is likely far below the actual price&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>cost estimates in other high speed rail projects have underestimated costs<\/li>\n<li>Reason.com says it will cost tax payers\u00a0$21.5 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Look at the problems California has has building its easiest leg through the Central Valley<\/li>\n<li>Almost all rail in the US is expensive and underutilitized<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Texas Central seems hell-bent on using eminent domain to force property owners to sell their land so they can build a taxpayer-funded boondoggle.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartland.org\/publications-resources\/publications\/research--commentary-high-speed-rail-wont-work-in-texas\">The Heartland Institute |\u00a0RESEARCH &amp; COMMENTARY: HIGH-SPEED RAIL WON\u2019T WORK IN TEXAS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Whose study?<\/strong>Heartland Institute<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Reasons High Speed Rail Won&#8217;t Work in Texas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;cost estimate is likely far below the actual price&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>cost estimates in other high speed rail projects have underestimated costs<\/li>\n<li>Reason.com says it will cost tax payers\u00a0$21.5 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Look at the problems California has has building its easiest leg through the Central Valley<\/li>\n<li>Almost all rail in the US is expensive and underutilitized<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Texas Central seems hell-bent on using eminent domain to force property\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":[36,51,18,10,30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-activism","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","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=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}