{"id":164,"date":"2015-04-15T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/04\/15\/3-reasons-to-oppose-high-speed-rail\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:01:00","slug":"3-reasons-to-oppose-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/3-reasons-to-oppose-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons to Oppose High Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Eminent Domain<\/li>\n<li>Private funding claim is a rouse.<\/li>\n<li>Texas needs to build roads, not rails.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Eminent Domain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Building the high speed rail will grant a private entity, the Texas Central Railway, the power of eminent domain. Private entities with eminent domain are out of vogue in Texas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opposition claims that if ridership goals are not met, public funds will be applied to the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roads First<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB1889\">HB 1889 <\/a>by Metcalf seeks to cease rail building and promote road building. From the author:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need more roads for citizens to travel to ease our existing roadways,\u201d Metcalf said. &#8220;We do not need a high-speed railway in Texas that will only benefit a few, while at the same time disturbing thousands of citizens within its path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/politics\/2015\/04\/meet-the-opposition-to-texas-high-speed-rail\/390576\/\">The Atlantic CityLab<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/traffic\/your-commute\/article18623106.html\">Ft Worth Star Telegram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Eminent Domain<\/li>\n<li>Private funding claim is a rouse.<\/li>\n<li>Texas needs to build roads, not rails.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Eminent Domain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Building the high speed rail will grant a private entity, the Texas Central Railway, the power of eminent domain. Private entities with eminent domain are out of vogue in Texas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opposition claims that if ridership goals are not met, public funds will be applied to the project.<\/p... \n\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-domain","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}