{"id":268,"date":"2015-08-13T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/13\/4-reasons-texas-concerned-citizens-are-targeting-high-speed-rail\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:50:00","slug":"4-reasons-texas-concerned-citizens-are-targeting-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/4-reasons-texas-concerned-citizens-are-targeting-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons Texas Concerned Citizens are Targeting High Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of former CEOs\u00a0and executives formed a group that thought it would support high speed rail for the economic devleopment opportunities for Ellis County.<\/p>\n<p>Once it was determined that Ellis County wouldn&#8217;t see economic development as the train speeds through, the group shifted course to killing high speed rail.<\/p>\n<p>The group wants to keep high speed rail out of Ellis County because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>agriculture contributes $160 million to the Ellis County economy<\/li>\n<li>land will have to be aquired in Ellis County from its farmers<\/li>\n<li>farms will be split in 2<\/li>\n<li>rail will be\u00a0will be &#8220;a literal and\u00a0figurative barrier to future growth, relegating Ellis County to a semi-rural purgatory&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Local communities, \u00a0Palmer, Ferris &amp; Ennis\u00a0, banded together to create the\u00a0Community\u00a0Development Sub-Regional Planning Commission in hopes of stopping high speed rail. The group believes the same tactic was used by sub regional planning commissions to stop TransTexas Corridor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/news\/in-ellis-county-officials-hatch-a-plot-to-kill-the-dallas-to-houston-bullet-train-7471216\">Dallas Observer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of former CEOs\u00a0and executives formed a group that thought it would support high speed rail for the economic devleopment opportunities for Ellis County.<\/p>\n<p>Once it was determined that Ellis County wouldn&#8217;t see economic development as the train speeds through, the group shifted course to killing high speed rail.<\/p>\n<p>The group wants to keep high speed rail out of Ellis County because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>agriculture contributes $160 million to the Ellis County economy<\/li>\n<li>land will have to be aquired in Ellis&#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":[3,12,30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-domain","category-local","category-local-government","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}