{"id":1102,"date":"2018-09-03T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/09\/03\/regulatory-trend-fall-2018-opposition-arguments-to-texas-high-speed-rail\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T22:03:00","slug":"regulatory-trend-fall-2018-opposition-arguments-to-texas-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/regulatory-trend-fall-2018-opposition-arguments-to-texas-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory TREND. Fall 2018 Opposition Arguments to Texas High Speed Rail."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellis County residents offered the following reasons to oppose Texas Central Rail high speed rail project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>local property taxes<\/strong> will rise because &#8220;nearby properties will be taken out of the tax base&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>eminent domain<\/strong>\u00a0a railroad could take a 2 mile on each\u00a0side swatch of land<\/li>\n<li><strong>destruction of family farms<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>uncertainty<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>too many unknowns for the comfort level of residents<\/li>\n<li><strong>environmental concerns<\/strong>\u00a0the train will cut species migration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxahachietx.com\/news\/20180903\/ellis-county-residents-express-new-concerns-as-high-speed-rail-project-moves-forward\">Waxahachie Daily Light | Ellis County Residents Express new Concerns As High Speed Rail Project Moves Forward<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>\u00a0<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellis County residents offered the following reasons to oppose Texas Central Rail high speed rail project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>local property taxes<\/strong> will rise because &#8220;nearby properties will be taken out of the tax base&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>eminent domain<\/strong>\u00a0a railroad could take a 2 mile on each\u00a0side swatch of land<\/li>\n<li><strong>destruction of family farms<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>uncertainty<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>too many unknowns for the comfort level of residents<\/li>\n<li><strong>environmental concerns<\/strong>\u00a0the train will cut species migration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxahachietx.com\/news\/20180903\/ellis-county-residents-express-new-concerns-as-high-speed-rail-project-moves-forward\">Waxahachie Daily Light | Ellis County Residents Express new\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51,18,3,19,10,30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-activism","category-eminent-domain","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","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=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}