{"id":1162,"date":"2018-11-27T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/11\/27\/3-reasons-citizens-against-government-waste-oppose-high-speed-rail-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T23:53:00","slug":"3-reasons-citizens-against-government-waste-oppose-high-speed-rail-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/3-reasons-citizens-against-government-waste-oppose-high-speed-rail-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Citizens Against Government Waste Oppose High Speed Rail in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>California.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0didn&#8217;t work\/isn&#8217;t working in California which has large cost overruns and delays<\/li>\n<li><strong>Promises Break.<\/strong>\u00a0The claim of no tax payer funds will be broken, it usually is<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ridership is a Myth.<\/strong>\u00a0Projections on rideership aren&#8217;t realistic\n<ul>\n<li>based on this 2017 Reason Foundation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/texas_high_speed_rail.pdf\" style=\"color:rgb(137,171,52);background-position:0px 0px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Government Overreach <\/strong>via\u00a0Eminent Domain\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/2018\/11\/26\/hit-the-brakes-on-high-speed-rail-in-texas\/\">Trib Talk |\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/author\/tom-schatz\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-position:0px 0px;\">Tom Schatz<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/2018\/11\/26\/hit-the-brakes-on-high-speed-rail-in-texas\/\">\u00a0|\u00a0President, Citizens Against Government Waste |\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/2018\/11\/26\/hit-the-brakes-on-high-speed-rail-in-texas\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(19,19,19);background-position:0px 0px;\">Hit the brakes on high speed rail in Texas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>California.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0didn&#8217;t work\/isn&#8217;t working in California which has large cost overruns and delays<\/li>\n<li><strong>Promises Break.<\/strong>\u00a0The claim of no tax payer funds will be broken, it usually is<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ridership is a Myth.<\/strong>\u00a0Projections on rideership aren&#8217;t realistic\n<ul>\n<li>based on this 2017 Reason Foundation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/texas_high_speed_rail.pdf\" style=\"color:rgb(137,171,52);background-position:0px 0px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Government Overreach <\/strong>via\u00a0Eminent Domain\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/2018\/11\/26\/hit-the-brakes-on-high-speed-rail-in-texas\/\">Trib Talk |\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/author\/tom-schatz\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-position:0px 0px;\">Tom Schatz<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/2018\/11\/26\/hit-the-brakes-on-high-speed-rail-in-texas\/\">\u00a0|\u00a0President, Citizens Against Government Waste |\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribtalk.org\/2018\/11\/26\/hit-the-brakes-on-high-speed-rail-in-texas\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(19,19,19);background-position:0px 0px;\">Hit the brakes on high speed rail in Texas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,38,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-business-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","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=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}