{"id":1965,"date":"2020-09-24T20:45:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2020-09-24T20:45:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:45:45","slug":"covid-texas-central-rail-covid-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/covid-texas-central-rail-covid-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID. Texas Central Rail + COVID Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How far along is this high speed rail project? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It received Federal Railroad Administration this week<\/li><li>Next stop Surface Transportation board approval. <\/li><li> &#8220;will proceed to construction as soon as possible\u00a0&#8220;<\/li><li>Initial cost estimates of $10 billion have doubled to $20 billion<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are opponents saying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Congressman Kevin Brady \u201cThey are still saying they will break ground this year. No they will not.\u201d<\/li><li>Re-route the Route: will forever will alter the landscape with electrical lines and berms to elevate the track<\/li><li>State Representative Leman: \u201cSince their conception, Texas Central has lied to its investors and Texans about this project,\u201d <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How does COVID factor in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Texas Central Rail says the project will be economically beneficial and will help with COVID economic recovery<\/li><li>COVID brings funding challenges for governments, and Texas Central Rail is &#8221;\u00a0insolvent and fatally flawed project&#8221; and will cost taxpayer revenue  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/next\/Houston-Dallas-High-Speed-Rail-Line-Full-Steam-Ahead.html?utm_term=Houston-Dallas%5Cu2019%20High-Speed%20Rail%20Line%3A%20Full%20Steam%20Ahead&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Forgotten%20Meaning%20of%20%5Cu2018We%20the%20People%5Cu2019&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Houston Chronicle via Governing | Houston-Dallas\u2019 High-Speed Rail Line: Full Steam Ahead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far along is this high speed rail project? It received Federal Railroad Administration this week Next stop Surface Transportation board approval. &#8220;will proceed to construction as soon as possible\u00a0&#8220; Initial cost estimates of $10 billion have doubled to $20 billion What are opponents saying? Congressman Kevin Brady \u201cThey are still saying they will break [&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-1965","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\/1965","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=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}