{"id":604,"date":"2016-09-23T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/09\/23\/county-judge-lists-4-reasons-high-speed-rail-has-high-hurdles-high-speed-rail-6-counterpoints\/"},"modified":"2016-09-23T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T21:32:00","slug":"county-judge-lists-4-reasons-high-speed-rail-has-high-hurdles-high-speed-rail-6-counterpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/county-judge-lists-4-reasons-high-speed-rail-has-high-hurdles-high-speed-rail-6-counterpoints\/","title":{"rendered":"County Judge Lists 4 Reasons High Speed Rail has High Hurdles + High Speed Rail 6 Counterpoints."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limestone County Judge\u00a0\u00a0Daniel Burkeen lists 4\u00a0reasons high speed rail isn&#8217;t foreeseable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No eminent domain authority- at least not yet<\/li>\n<li>No \u00a0environmental studies are completed<\/li>\n<li>No land has been acquired<\/li>\n<li>No permission to cross our county roads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Texas Central Railway&#8217;s 6 Point Repsonse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>County policy is anti- business<\/li>\n<li>County policy is anti- innovation<\/li>\n<li>County policy is anti-private investment<\/li>\n<li>They will receive no federal subsidies<\/li>\n<li>The Company is negotiating in good faith with landowners<\/li>\n<li>Texas has a history of granting eminent domain authority to railroads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groesbeckjournal.com\/articles\/2016\/09\/23\/high-speed-rail-foes-show-court-vote\">Groesbeck Journal |\u00a0High-speed rail foes show up at court for vote<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limestone County Judge\u00a0\u00a0Daniel Burkeen lists 4\u00a0reasons high speed rail isn&#8217;t foreeseable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No eminent domain authority- at least not yet<\/li>\n<li>No \u00a0environmental studies are completed<\/li>\n<li>No land has been acquired<\/li>\n<li>No permission to cross our county roads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Texas Central Railway&#8217;s 6 Point Repsonse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>County policy is anti- business<\/li>\n<li>County policy is anti- innovation<\/li>\n<li>County policy is anti-private investment<\/li>\n<li>They will receive no federal subsidies<\/li>\n<li>The Company is negotiating in good faith with&#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":[36,3,30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-eminent-domain","category-local-government","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}