{"id":149,"date":"2015-03-24T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/03\/24\/high-speed-rail-at-cy-fair-chamber-of-commerce\/"},"modified":"2015-03-24T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:26:00","slug":"high-speed-rail-at-cy-fair-chamber-of-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/high-speed-rail-at-cy-fair-chamber-of-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Rail at Cy Fair Chamber of Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas-Houston private high speed rail proposal presented to Cy Fair Chamber of Commerce this week. Former Harris County Judge Eckles, who leads the Texas Central High-Speed Railway (TCHSR), presented these facts about high speed rail:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it will be privately funded<\/li>\n<li>the project will be overseen by TXDOT and\u00a0Federal Railroad Administration<\/li>\n<li>travel time bewtween Houston and Dallas would be 90 minutes<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;TCHSR can pay a reasonable amount of money plus a little more if that could keep any negotiations out of the court system&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refreshing our Recollection: Senator Kolkhorst&#8217;s\u00a0Senate Bill 1601 would prohibit TCHSR from using eminent domain. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhoustonnews.com\/spring\/news\/high-speed-rail-would-connect-houston-dallas\/article_86ed4f3f-334b-5dec-9d18-270fa012eca7.html\">Spring Observer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas-Houston private high speed rail proposal presented to Cy Fair Chamber of Commerce this week. Former Harris County Judge Eckles, who leads the Texas Central High-Speed Railway (TCHSR), presented these facts about high speed rail:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it will be privately funded<\/li>\n<li>the project will be overseen by TXDOT and\u00a0Federal Railroad Administration<\/li>\n<li>travel time bewtween Houston and Dallas would be 90 minutes<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;TCHSR can pay a reasonable amount of money plus &#8230;<\/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":[14,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-eminent-domain","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}