{"id":445,"date":"2016-03-16T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/03\/16\/3-points-on-what-the-opposition-to-high-speed-rail-gets-wrong\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:55:00","slug":"3-points-on-what-the-opposition-to-high-speed-rail-gets-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/3-points-on-what-the-opposition-to-high-speed-rail-gets-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Points on What the Opposition to High Speed Rail Gets Wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Morning News editorial isn&#8217;t a fan of the Brazos Valley Council opposition to Texas High Speed Rail from Dallas to Houston. Let&#8217;s look at what the DMN says the BVC gets wrong:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a public benefit to businesses along the train&#8217;s path and to consumers who won&#8217;t have to sit in 6 hours of traffic and can count on a 90 minute train trip<\/li>\n<li>The risk will be born by the high speed rail investors- so subsidies. no special favors.<\/li>\n<li>$36 billion in revenue over 25 years is estimated for the high speed rail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/editorials\/20160316-editorial-high-speed-rail-opponents-are-shortsighted.ece\">Dallas Morning News | Editorial | High-speed rail opponents are shortsighted<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Morning News editorial isn&#8217;t a fan of the Brazos Valley Council opposition to Texas High Speed Rail from Dallas to Houston. Let&#8217;s look at what the DMN says the BVC gets wrong:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a public benefit to businesses along the train&#8217;s path and to consumers who won&#8217;t have to sit in 6 hours of traffic and can count on a 90 minute train trip<\/li>\n<li>The risk will be born by the high speed rail investors- so subsidies. no special favors.<\/li>\n<li>$36 billion in revenue over 25 years is estimated for&#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":[36,3,10,30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-eminent-domain","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}