{"id":249,"date":"2015-07-22T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/07\/22\/new-ceo-at-texas-central-rail-texas-high-speed-rail-project-support-from-a-libertarian-leaning-senator\/"},"modified":"2015-07-22T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T22:21:00","slug":"new-ceo-at-texas-central-rail-texas-high-speed-rail-project-support-from-a-libertarian-leaning-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/new-ceo-at-texas-central-rail-texas-high-speed-rail-project-support-from-a-libertarian-leaning-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"New CEO at Texas Central Rail (Texas High Speed Rail Project) &#038; Support from a libertarian leaning Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Kieth is the new CEO at Texas Central Rail. He is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0from Dallas<\/li>\n<li>previously at RREEF\/Deutsche Bank Infrastructure Investments, serving as\u00a0global chief executive officer for 10 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Texas Central Rail also garnered a $75 Million investment from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Kleinheinez<\/li>\n<li>Drayton McClain<\/li>\n<li>Jack Matthews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One notable supporter, Senator Don Huffines, breaking from other conservative Senators Like Kolkhorst, who filed bills this year\u00a0to limit the rail&#8217;s eminent domain authority:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT;\">Today\u2019s announcement demonstrates that Texans are willing and eager to invest in a private sector, free market solution to moving Texans across our great state. I applaud Texas Central Railway for developing the project to this point and look forward to boarding a train from Dallas very soon. This private sector project will help decrease our reliance on the overcrowded, underfunded, outdated interstate highway system that is in desperate need of more funding, expansion, and repair.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/USA-Update\/2015\/0722\/Texas-business-community-invests-75-million-in-high-speed-train-project\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/story\/news\/local\/texas-news\/2015\/07\/22\/texans-invest-75-million-in-high-speed-rail-proposal\/30511791\/\">WFAA<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/news\/texas-central-gets-new-ceo-75-million-for-dallas-to-houston-bullet-train-7611220\">Houston Press<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/transportationblog.dallasnews.com\/2015\/07\/dallas-houston-bullet-train-company-raises-75m-hires-new-ceo.html\/\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/traffic\/your-commute\/article28248565.html\">Star Telegram<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dallas\/news\/2015\/07\/22\/texas-bullet-train-gets-new-ceo-75-million-boost.html\">Dallas Business Journal<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiverailroading.com\/high_speed_rail\/article\/Texas-highspeed-rail-company-names-Keith-CEO--45166\"> Progressive Railroading<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texascentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/press-release-final.pdf\">Texas Central Rail Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Kieth is the new CEO at Texas Central Rail. He is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0from Dallas<\/li>\n<li>previously at RREEF\/Deutsche Bank Infrastructure Investments, serving as\u00a0global chief executive officer for 10 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Texas Central Rail also garnered a $75 Million investment from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Kleinheinez<\/li>\n<li>Drayton McClain<\/li>\n<li>Jack Matthews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One notable supporter, Senator Don Huffines, breaking from other conservative Senators Like Kolkhorst, who filed bills this year\u00a0to limit the rail&#8217;s eminent domain authority:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT;\">Today\u2019s&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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-249","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\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}