{"id":484,"date":"2016-04-26T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/04\/26\/high-speed-rail-not-good-for-rural-texas-says-community-development-sub-regional-planning-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T21:56:00","slug":"high-speed-rail-not-good-for-rural-texas-says-community-development-sub-regional-planning-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/high-speed-rail-not-good-for-rural-texas-says-community-development-sub-regional-planning-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Rail Not Good for Rural Texas Says Community Development Sub Regional Planning Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marty Hiles,\u00a0Commissioner,\u00a0Community Development Sub Regional Planning Commission, makes the following 7\u00a0points about the harm to rural land from high speed rail:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No Train Stops in rural Texas means no economic benefit for rural Texas<\/li>\n<li>Rural property values will decline<\/li>\n<li>4 mile wide path of eminent domain is what high speed rail will take<\/li>\n<li>Building the train tracks will destroy the environment in rural Texas<\/li>\n<li>High Speed Rail construction will create a path like an F-5 tornado<\/li>\n<li>High Speed Rail will cut rural economies by 25% or more<\/li>\n<li>Schools and emergency service districts will suffer from the local property values<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/localnewsonly.com\/2016\/04\/texas-central-railroad-high-speed-rail-will-require-local-dirt-gravel-and-sand-to-build-a-25-foot-high-and-100-foot-wide-earthen-berm\/\">Local News Only Op-Ed Commissioner Marty Hiles |\u00a0Texas Central Railroad, High Speed Rail will require local dirt, gravel and sand to build a 25 foot high and 100 foot wide earthen berm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marty Hiles,\u00a0Commissioner,\u00a0Community Development Sub Regional Planning Commission, makes the following 7\u00a0points about the harm to rural land from high speed rail:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No Train Stops in rural Texas means no economic benefit for rural Texas<\/li>\n<li>Rural property values will decline<\/li>\n<li>4 mile wide path of eminent domain is what high speed rail will take<\/li>\n<li>Building the train tracks will destroy the environment in rural Texas<\/li>\n<li>High Speed Rail construction will create a path like an F-5 tornado<\/li>\n<li>High Speed&#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":[36,30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-local-government","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}