{"id":673,"date":"2017-01-06T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/01\/06\/new-austin-to-san-antonio-rail-project-is-existing-rail-3-key-pieces-of-intel\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:34:00","slug":"new-austin-to-san-antonio-rail-project-is-existing-rail-3-key-pieces-of-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/new-austin-to-san-antonio-rail-project-is-existing-rail-3-key-pieces-of-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"New Austin to San Antonio Rail Project is Existing Rail? 3 Key Pieces of Intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The proposed solution for the 1-35 rail issue?<\/strong>\u00a0Commuter Amtrack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do I need to know about the\u00a0Amtrack and Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization dialog?<\/strong>\u00a0The Alamo City asked if Amtrack wanted to be its partner and Amtrack said sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has to happen to make commuter rail a reality?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amtrack is conducting a\u00a0Ridership and Revenue Study to look at:\n<ul>\n<li>cost to improve Union Pacific track<\/li>\n<li>to allow for 90mph trains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cost to San Antonio for the study? 100,000<\/li>\n<li>Part of a larger vision to connect to high speed rail between San Antonio -Laredo- Monterrey, Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Timeline for Austin to San Antonio is 3-5 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpr.org\/post\/stuck-behind-wheel-amtrak-studying-san-antonio-austin-commuter-service#stream\/0\">Texas Public Radio |\u00a0Stuck Behind The Wheel: Amtrak Studying San Antonio-Austin Commuter Service\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The proposed solution for the 1-35 rail issue?<\/strong>\u00a0Commuter Amtrack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do I need to know about the\u00a0Amtrack and Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization dialog?<\/strong>\u00a0The Alamo City asked if Amtrack wanted to be its partner and Amtrack said sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has to happen to make commuter rail a reality?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amtrack is conducting a\u00a0Ridership and Revenue Study to look at:\n<ul>\n<li>cost to improve Union Pacific track<\/li>\n<li>to allow for 90mph trains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cost to San Antonio for the study? 100,000<\/li>\n<li>Part of a larger&#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":[30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}