{"id":930,"date":"2018-01-09T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/01\/09\/4-reasons-a-high-speed-rail-study-was-shut-down-in-the-midwest\/"},"modified":"2018-01-09T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T18:38:00","slug":"4-reasons-a-high-speed-rail-study-was-shut-down-in-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/4-reasons-a-high-speed-rail-study-was-shut-down-in-the-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons a High Speed Rail Study Was Shut Down in the Midwest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Minnesota<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reasons that the Minnesota Department of Transportation was stopped from completing a high sped rail study:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republicans denied the study federal funds for completion<\/li>\n<li>Republicans said the study was a waste of taxpayer dollars<\/li>\n<li>Republicans say Minnesotoans\u00a0opposes high speed rail<\/li>\n<li>A Republican said its not an economically viable project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/tns-high-speed-rail-wisconsin-minnesota.html?utm_term=High-Speed%20Rail%20Study%20Shut%20Down%20in%20the%20Midwest&amp;utm_campaign=Can%20Politicians%20Be%20Jailed%20for%20Supporting%20Immigrant%20Sanctuary%20Policies&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0High-Speed Rail Study Shut Down in the Midwest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Minnesota<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reasons that the Minnesota Department of Transportation was stopped from completing a high sped rail study:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republicans denied the study federal funds for completion<\/li>\n<li>Republicans said the study was a waste of taxpayer dollars<\/li>\n<li>Republicans say Minnesotoans\u00a0opposes high speed rail<\/li>\n<li>A Republican said its not an economically viable project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/tns-high-speed-rail-wisconsin-minnesota.html?utm_term=High-Speed%20Rail%20Study%20Shut%20Down%20in%20the%20Midwest&amp;utm_campaign=Can%20Politicians%20Be%20Jailed%20for%20Supporting%20Immigrant%20Sanctuary%20Policies&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0High-Speed Rail Study Shut Down in the Midwest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51,8,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}