{"id":694,"date":"2017-02-06T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/02\/06\/5-points-from-state-rep-byron-cook-high-speed-rail-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T19:30:00","slug":"5-points-from-state-rep-byron-cook-high-speed-rail-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/5-points-from-state-rep-byron-cook-high-speed-rail-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Points from State Rep. Byron Cook.  High Speed Rail Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;Japanese &#8211; Texas High Speed Rail Project&#8221; is too good to be true<\/li>\n<li>It is a &#8220;bullet aimed at property owners &#8221; \u00a0to the benefit of &#8220;commercial real estate venture or for the state&#8217;s master transportation plan for the future.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The project is touted by &#8220;private real estate speculators&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Reliance on Japanese rail technology has 2\u00a0problems:\n<ul>\n<li>its not compatible to existing rail in Texas<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;future generations of Texas rail customers hostage to a monopoly railroad technology with NO competitive suppliers&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>its &#8220;disingenuous&#8221; to say the rail project won&#8217;t rely on taxpayer funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corsicanadailysun.com\/opinion\/opinion-a-closer-look-at-the-japanese---texas\/article_598d5966-eb03-11e6-89c5-1b8ff4a2931a.html\">Corsicana Daily Sun |\u00a0OPINION: A Closer Look at the Japanese &#8211; Texas High Speed Rail Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itemonline.com\/opinion\/columns\/a-closer-look-at-the-japanese-texas-high-speed-rail\/article_a9fb62d1-f305-5c0f-9a3d-6a573ab8216b.html\">Huntsville The Item |\u00a0A closer look at the Japanese Texas high-speed rail project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;Japanese &#8211; Texas High Speed Rail Project&#8221; is too good to be true<\/li>\n<li>It is a &#8220;bullet aimed at property owners &#8221; \u00a0to the benefit of &#8220;commercial real estate venture or for the state&#8217;s master transportation plan for the future.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The project is touted by &#8220;private real estate speculators&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Reliance on Japanese rail technology has 2\u00a0problems:\n<ul>\n<li>its not compatible to existing rail in Texas<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;future generations of Texas rail customers hostage to a monopoly railroad technology with NO competitive\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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":[36,3,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-eminent-domain","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}