{"id":1678,"date":"2020-04-16T18:11:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T18:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2020-04-16T18:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T18:11:14","slug":"covid-texas-high-speed-rail-reasons-to-deny-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/covid-texas-high-speed-rail-reasons-to-deny-project\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID + Texas High Speed Rail = Reasons to Deny Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What: Dozens to Texas lawmakers wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation asking that Texas Central Rail stop moving forward<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What reasons did the lawmakers give?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>COVID: Texas Central Rail slayed off staff<\/li><li>LAND: Texas Central Rail has not acquired the necessary land<\/li><li>PROJECT FUNDING: Texas Central Rail does not have secured funding for the project<\/li><li>GOVERNMENT INEFFICIENCY. It would be an inexcusable waste of taxpayer dollars and jeopardize the integrity of the rules making process at the Federal Railroad Administration to proceed<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeagle.com\/news\/local\/state-reps-ask-department-of-transportation-to-drop-high-speed-rail-project\/article_6d2d4e94-794a-11ea-96ad-63efb7143d9e.html\">Bryan College Station Eagle | State lawmakers ask Department of Transportation to drop high-speed rail project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: Dozens to Texas lawmakers wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation asking that Texas Central Rail stop moving forward What reasons did the lawmakers give? COVID: Texas Central Rail slayed off staff LAND: Texas Central Rail has not acquired the necessary land PROJECT FUNDING: Texas Central Rail does not have secured funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}