{"id":300,"date":"2015-09-23T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/23\/new-high-speed-rail-project-pops-up-with-an-ingenious-american-made-funding-plan\/"},"modified":"2015-09-23T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T22:33:00","slug":"new-high-speed-rail-project-pops-up-with-an-ingenious-american-made-funding-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/new-high-speed-rail-project-pops-up-with-an-ingenious-american-made-funding-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"New High Speed Rail Project Pops Up with an ingenious American-made funding plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How do you get more people to the gambling oasis in the desert?<\/strong> High speed rail between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which entities are involved in the high speed rail project?\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xpresswest.com\/milestones.html\" style=\"color:rgb(10,184,235);font-family:Oxygen, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:.20000000298023224px;line-height:25px;\">XpressWest<\/a>\u00a0partnership with China Railway International<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foreign investment?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s their high speed rail plan look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0$100 million in seed money, to \u201caccelerate launch\u201d of the line.<\/li>\n<li>The September 2016 target date to start construction<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the project\u2019s environmental documents are already in order<\/li>\n<li>it goes through a lot of desert and most of Nevada is \u00a0federal government land, so mimimal private property rights hurdles.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>XpressWest is talking about\u00a0plans to open a manufacturing plant in Nevada, which opens up the possibility of federal loan funding based on American manufacturing<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/commute\/2015\/09\/the-unbreakable-us-high-speed-rail-system\/406927\/\">City Lab | The Atlanic |\u00a0The Unbreakable U.S. High-Speed Rail System<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How do you get more people to the gambling oasis in the desert?<\/strong> High speed rail between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which entities are involved in the high speed rail project?\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xpresswest.com\/milestones.html\" style=\"color:rgb(10,184,235);font-family:Oxygen, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:17px;letter-spacing:.20000000298023224px;line-height:25px;\">XpressWest<\/a>\u00a0partnership with China Railway International<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foreign investment?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s their high speed rail plan look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0$100 million in seed money, to \u201caccelerate launch\u201d of the line.<\/li>\n<li>The September 2016 target date to start construction<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the project\u2019s environmental documents are already in&#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":[3,8,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","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\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}