{"id":62,"date":"2014-12-04T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2014\/12\/04\/high-speed-rail-meets-private-property-rights-supporter-john-wray\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T23:00:00","slug":"high-speed-rail-meets-private-property-rights-supporter-john-wray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/high-speed-rail-meets-private-property-rights-supporter-john-wray\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Rail Meets Private Property Rights Supporter John Wray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building High Speed Rail faces challenges aquiring property. Rail takes a lot of land. 97% of Texas land is private owned. To build rail between Houston and Dallas requires crossing land owned by many landowners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Landowners are skeptical about eminent domain. They favor fairness and view eminent domain as inherently unfair. When eminent domain is exercised by a private company the skeptism raises to higher level like DefCon 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These challenges were highlighted in an interview with Representative-Elect\u00a0John Wray, whois concerned about private entities exercising eminent domain. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxahachietx.com\/midlothian\/news\/county-could-see-high-speed-railway\/article_e928a6ae-2d8d-5aae-a2f9-c16c77eb6a73.html\">Waxahatchie DayLight<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building High Speed Rail faces challenges aquiring property. Rail takes a lot of land. 97% of Texas land is private owned. To build rail between Houston and Dallas requires crossing land owned by many landowners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Landowners are skeptical about eminent domain. They favor fairness and view eminent domain as inherently unfair. When eminent domain is exercised by a private company the skeptism raises to higher level like DefCon 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These challenges were highlighted in an inter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-domain","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}