{"id":117,"date":"2015-02-12T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/02\/12\/texas-private-rail-proposal-foreign-company-eminent-domain-transportation\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:37:00","slug":"texas-private-rail-proposal-foreign-company-eminent-domain-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/texas-private-rail-proposal-foreign-company-eminent-domain-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Private Rail Proposal: Foreign Company. Eminent Domain. Transportation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its deja vu all over again. A foreign company finances a new transportation proposal. The foreign company has eminent domain authority. Opposition forms. Opposition gets stronger. The ultimate result: All eminent domain authority is repealed for the project.<\/p>\n<p>10 years ago, it was Spanish Company,\u00a0Cintra, and Trans Texas Corridor. Today it&#8217;s Japanese financed\u00a0Texas Central Railway, which is proposing high-speed rail to connect Texas major metropolitan areas. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previous opposition to the rail had been rural land owners, but newly organized opposition group, NoTexasCentral.Com, is suburban and urban based.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/kuffsworld\/2015\/02\/opposition-to-the-high-speed-rail-line-gets-organized\/\">Houston Chronicle Kuff&#8217;s World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its deja vu all over again. A foreign company finances a new transportation proposal. The foreign company has eminent domain authority. Opposition forms. Opposition gets stronger. The ultimate result: All eminent domain authority is repealed for the project.<\/p>\n<p>10 years ago, it was Spanish Company,\u00a0Cintra, and Trans Texas Corridor. Today it&#8217;s Japanese financed\u00a0Texas Central Railway, which is proposing high-speed rail to connect Texas major metropolitan areas. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previous opposi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-domain","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","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=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}