{"id":535,"date":"2016-06-20T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/06\/20\/state-representative-launches-high-speed-rail-calculator\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:18:00","slug":"state-representative-launches-high-speed-rail-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/state-representative-launches-high-speed-rail-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"State Representative Launches High Speed Rail Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What high speed rail data is\u00a0factored into the calculator?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one way fare cost<\/li>\n<li>minimum passenger rates at the fare cost to keep high speed rail economically viable<\/li>\n<li>financing costs<\/li>\n<li>rate of return<\/li>\n<li>train capacity<\/li>\n<li>revenue<\/li>\n<li>income<\/li>\n<li>costs for maintenance and operation<\/li>\n<li>costs for principle and interest finance<\/li>\n<li>costs for shareholder profit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The purpose of the calculator?<\/strong>\u00a0If high speed rail finances go south, the State of Texas will foot the bill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.state.tx.us\/news\/press-releases\/?id=5859\">Rep. Bell Press Release |\u00a0BELL LAUNCHES HIGH SPEED RAIL CALCULATOR\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecilbelljr.com\/hsr\/\">Cecil Bell Jr. Campaign | High Speed Rail Calculator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What high speed rail data is\u00a0factored into the calculator?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one way fare cost<\/li>\n<li>minimum passenger rates at the fare cost to keep high speed rail economically viable<\/li>\n<li>financing costs<\/li>\n<li>rate of return<\/li>\n<li>train capacity<\/li>\n<li>revenue<\/li>\n<li>income<\/li>\n<li>costs for maintenance and operation<\/li>\n<li>costs for principle and interest finance<\/li>\n<li>costs for shareholder profit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The purpose of the calculator?<\/strong>\u00a0If high speed rail finances go south, the State of Texas will foot the bill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.state.tx.us\/news\/press-releases\/?id=5859\">Rep. Bell Press Release |\u00a0BELL LAUNCHES HIGH&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-campaign-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}