{"id":223,"date":"2015-06-25T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/06\/25\/high-speed-rail-the-national-landscape\/"},"modified":"2015-06-25T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T21:24:00","slug":"high-speed-rail-the-national-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/high-speed-rail-the-national-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Rail: The National Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationally 2 high speed rail projects have moved beyond &#8220;gee, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if we could zip between cities on a train at high speeds&#8221; conjecture.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California has a state funded high speed rail proposal that is in the process of construction\n<ul>\n<li>Voters approved $10 Billion<\/li>\n<li>520 miles of track<\/li>\n<li>has fought landowners and has been using eminent domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Texas high speed rail project is considered to be more than just conjecture &amp; is privately funded.\n<ul>\n<li>Seeks to raise $10-$12 billion<\/li>\n<li>240 miles of track<\/li>\n<li>Has encountred troubled landowners<\/li>\n<li>May &#8220;avoid some of the intense public scrutiny and endless political interventions to which the California plan has been subjected&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A professor at the\u00a0\u00a0Intermodal Transportation Institute says Texas&#8217; public-private model has the highest odds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sddt.com\/News\/article.cfm?SourceCode=20150623faa&amp;_t=Popular+elsewhere+highspeed+rail+remains+elusive+in+the+US#.VYxxXWA-D1w\">San Diego Daily Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationally 2 high speed rail projects have moved beyond &#8220;gee, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if we could zip between cities on a train at high speeds&#8221; conjecture.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California has a state funded high speed rail proposal that is in the process of construction\n<ul>\n<li>Voters approved $10 Billion<\/li>\n<li>520 miles of track<\/li>\n<li>has fought landowners and has been using eminent domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Texas high speed rail project is considered to be more than just conjecture &amp; is privately funded.\n<ul>\n<li>Seeks to raise $10-$12 billion<\/li>\n<li>240&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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":[3,8,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-domain","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}