{"id":284,"date":"2015-09-02T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/02\/senator-schwerter-on-high-speed-rail\/"},"modified":"2015-09-02T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:04:00","slug":"senator-schwerter-on-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/senator-schwerter-on-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Schwerter on High Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Schwertner says the trains can\u2019t provide an economic development benefit to affected landowners in 11 counties, of which five are in his district.<\/li>\n<li>Schwertner says if TCR gets it built and they run out of money, there are 40 House members from Houston and 40 more from the Dallas-Fort Worth area that will vote to keep the trains running.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wtaw.com\/2015\/08\/28\/texas-central-railway-hears-from-federal-officials-as-opposition-continues-to-the-bullet-train-between-houston-dallas\/\">WTAW<\/a> summarizing Senator Schwertner&#8217;s comments to a local Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Schwertner says the trains can\u2019t provide an economic development benefit to affected landowners in 11 counties, of which five are in his district.<\/li>\n<li>Schwertner says if TCR gets it built and they run out of money, there are 40 House members from Houston and 40 more from the Dallas-Fort Worth area that will vote to keep the trains running.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wtaw.com\/2015\/08\/28\/texas-central-railway-hears-from-federal-officials-as-opposition-continues-to-the-bullet-train-between-houston-dallas\/\">WTAW<\/a> summarizing Senator Schwertner&#8217;s comments to a local Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}