{"id":267,"date":"2015-08-13T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/13\/texas-central-railway-shifts-to-some-public-funding\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:45:00","slug":"texas-central-railway-shifts-to-some-public-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/texas-central-railway-shifts-to-some-public-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Central Railway Shifts to some Public Funding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/news\/texas-central-railways-fuzzy-definition-of-privately-financed-7479867\">The Dallas\u00a0Observer <\/a>points out that the funding message for the team bringing high speed rail to Texas has shifted from all private fudning to exploring certain public funding options.<\/p>\n<p>Public funding options for high speed rail include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>federal loans to rail ventures, specifically the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/ipd\/tifia\/\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(165,37,43);font-family:serif12, serif;line-height:19px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA)<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fra.dot.gov\/Page\/P0128\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(165,37,43);font-family:serif12, serif;line-height:19px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF)<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/li>\n<li>tax-exempt private-activity bonds (requires government approval)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/news\/texas-central-railways-fuzzy-definition-of-privately-financed-7479867\">The Dallas\u00a0Observer <\/a>points out that the funding message for the team bringing high speed rail to Texas has shifted from all private fudning to exploring certain public funding options.<\/p>\n<p>Public funding options for high speed rail include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>federal loans to rail ventures, specifically the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/ipd\/tifia\/\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(165,37,43);font-family:serif12, serif;line-height:19px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA)<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fra.dot.gov\/Page\/P0128\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(165,37,43);font-family:serif12, serif;line-height:19px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF)<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/li>\n<li>tax-exempt private-activity bonds (requires government&#8230;<\/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":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}