{"id":924,"date":"2017-12-26T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/12\/26\/anatomy-of-a-high-speed-rail-coalition-in-the-northwest-see-the-study-read-the-study-be-the-study\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T20:06:00","slug":"anatomy-of-a-high-speed-rail-coalition-in-the-northwest-see-the-study-read-the-study-be-the-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/anatomy-of-a-high-speed-rail-coalition-in-the-northwest-see-the-study-read-the-study-be-the-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a High Speed Rail Coalition in the Northwest. See the Study. Read the Study. Be the Study."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leg.wa.gov\/JTC\/Meetings\/Documents\/Agendas\/2017%20Agendas\/Dec%202017%20Meeting\/WSDOTUltraHighSpeedRail.pdf\">A recent feasibility study<\/a> found that high speed rail could work in Washington State. So, what entities were backing the study?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft<\/li>\n<li>Washington Building Trades<\/li>\n<li>Washington Roundtable<\/li>\n<li>Association of Washington Business<\/li>\n<li>Business Council of British Columbia<\/li>\n<li>Portland Business Alliance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How was the study funded?<\/strong> A $300,000 legislative appropriation and donations from Microsoft and Washington Building Trades<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the Washington State proposal for high speed rail looking for private investors?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, it is a funding option being explored<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelens.news\/2017\/12\/15\/ultra-high-speed-rail-work-study-finds\/\">Lens |\u00a0Ultra high-speed rail could work, study finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leg.wa.gov\/JTC\/Meetings\/Documents\/Agendas\/2017%20Agendas\/Dec%202017%20Meeting\/WSDOTUltraHighSpeedRail.pdf\">A recent feasibility study<\/a> found that high speed rail could work in Washington State. So, what entities were backing the study?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft<\/li>\n<li>Washington Building Trades<\/li>\n<li>Washington Roundtable<\/li>\n<li>Association of Washington Business<\/li>\n<li>Business Council of British Columbia<\/li>\n<li>Portland Business Alliance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How was the study funded?<\/strong> A $300,000 legislative appropriation and donations from Microsoft and Washington Building Trades<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the Washington State proposal for high speed rail looking for private investors?<\/strong>\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}