{"id":959,"date":"2018-02-15T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/02\/15\/legal-trend-legislative-trend-sunshine-states-seeks-stop-private-passenger-rail-3-key-points-to-be-up-to-speed\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:20:00","slug":"legal-trend-legislative-trend-sunshine-states-seeks-stop-private-passenger-rail-3-key-points-to-be-up-to-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-legislative-trend-sunshine-states-seeks-stop-private-passenger-rail-3-key-points-to-be-up-to-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend = Legislative TREND. Sunshine States Seeks Stop Private Passenger Rail. 3 Key Points to Be Up to Speed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The nationa&#8217;s only privately funded passenger rail:<\/strong>\u00a0Florida&#8217;s\u00a0All Aboard Florida\u2019s Brightline venture, a high-speed train that would connect Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando with an\u00a0expansion of the project linking West Palm Beach to Orlando<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who brought suit to stop the privately funded rail?\u00a0<\/strong>2 Florida counties +\u00a0Citizens Against Rail Expansion in Florida<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the complaints?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That\u00a0federal agencies did not sufficiently assess the project\u2019s environmental impacts and risk to public safety when approving $1.5 Billion in bonds<\/li>\n<li>Traffic congestion<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Noise<\/li>\n<li>Property devaluation<\/li>\n<li>Boat back-ups at bridge crossings<\/li>\n<li>ublic safety risks at the 59 at-grade road crossings\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s happening legislatively?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Florida&#8217;s Republican US Seantors are meeting with US rail officials over saety after 4 deaths<\/li>\n<li>2 bills in the legialature to require greater safety standards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/lawsuit-seeks-to-derail-florida-passenger-train-project\/\">Courthouse News Service |\u00a0Lawsuit Seeks to Derail Florida Passenger Train Project<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The nationa&#8217;s only privately funded passenger rail:<\/strong>\u00a0Florida&#8217;s\u00a0All Aboard Florida\u2019s Brightline venture, a high-speed train that would connect Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando with an\u00a0expansion of the project linking West Palm Beach to Orlando<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who brought suit to stop the privately funded rail?\u00a0<\/strong>2 Florida counties +\u00a0Citizens Against Rail Expansion in Florida<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the complaints?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That\u00a0federal agencies did not sufficiently assess the project\u2019s environmental impacts and risk\u2026<\/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":[36,51,44,19,10,4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-bonds","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","category-transportation-safety","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}