{"id":283,"date":"2015-09-01T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/01\/regional-transportation-council-funding-texas-high-speed-rail\/"},"modified":"2015-09-01T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:03:00","slug":"regional-transportation-council-funding-texas-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/regional-transportation-council-funding-texas-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Transportation Council Funding Texas High Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Regional Transportation Council earlier this month agreed to pay $4.5 million through 2018 to keep up planning efforts on the portion of the proposed bullet train system that would connect Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the source of the funds?\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;The council decided to use $4.5 million in surplus revenue collected from the region\u2019s toll roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><strong>What will the toll money be used for? &#8220;<\/strong>preliminary engineering, and will help the high-speed rail commission gather the data it needs to document projected ridership&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/article32970186.html\">FW Star Telegram:\u00a0North Texas puts up more high-speed rail money<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/alankandel.scienceblog.com\/2015\/09\/01\/road-tolls-to-pay-for-texas-high-speed-rail-planning-what-a-concept\/\">Science Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Regional Transportation Council earlier this month agreed to pay $4.5 million through 2018 to keep up planning efforts on the portion of the proposed bullet train system that would connect Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the source of the funds?\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;The council decided to use $4.5 million in surplus revenue collected from the region\u2019s toll roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><strong>What will the toll money be used for? &#8220;<\/strong>preliminary engineering, and will help the high-speed rail commission gather the data it&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-railways","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}