{"id":995,"date":"2018-04-05T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/04\/05\/high-speed-rail-opposition-in-the-bluebonnet-state-easter-trending\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:35:00","slug":"high-speed-rail-opposition-in-the-bluebonnet-state-easter-trending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/high-speed-rail-opposition-in-the-bluebonnet-state-easter-trending\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Rail Opposition in the Bluebonnet State. Easter Trending."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas High Speed Rail opposition points from the week of March 15th 2018, \u00a0are trending:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/fs\/transportation\/Is-a-High-Speed-Rail-Line-Right-for-Texas.html\">Government Technology |\u00a0Is a High-Speed Rail Line Right for Texas?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2018\/04\/02\/dallas-houston-high-speed-rail-plan-will-make-texas-35-corridor-loser-competitor-says\">Dallas Morning News |\u00a0Dallas-to-Houston high-speed rail plan will make Texas&#8217; I-35 corridor a loser, competitor says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/?post=4-point-opposition-to-houston-to-dallas-high-speed-rail-3-counterpoints-of-support-high-speed-v-higher-speed\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(55,55,55);\">4 Point Opposition to Houston to Dallas High Speed Rail. 3 Counterpoints of Support. High Speed v. Higher Speed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is making these statements?\u00a0<\/strong>SNCF America, Inc\u00a0\u00a0in written comments to\u00a0Federal Railway Administration (FRA) Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) for the Dallas to Houston High-Speed Rail Project<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is causing the impending &#8220;doom&#8221;\u00a0on passenger rail in Texas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1 Company benefits.\u00a0<\/strong>The Texas Central Rail Project is &#8220;designed around the best interest of a single company, not what is best for Texans or the state\u2019s rail transportation future.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Limited Area.\u00a0<\/strong>Modern rail is only successful in the US with network planning<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taxpayers will be liable.<\/strong>\u00a0operational revenue will not cover debt service<\/li>\n<li><strong>Relies on incompatible technology.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does SNCF support?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T-bone network.\u00a0<\/strong>passenger rail &#8220;\u200bnetwork would serve Houston, College Station, Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Temple, Georgetown, San Marcos, and San Antonio&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>More train options<\/strong>\u00a0that\u00a0consider\u00a0higher speed rail (125 mph max trains)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rail competition\u00a0<\/strong>based on compatible train technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20180312005328\/en\/SNCF-America-States-Proposed-Texas-Central-Rail\">Business Wire |\u00a0<strong>SNCF America, Inc. States Proposed Texas Central Rail Project Would Doom Texas&#8217; Passenger Rail Future<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas High Speed Rail opposition points from the week of March 15th 2018, \u00a0are trending:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtech.com\/fs\/transportation\/Is-a-High-Speed-Rail-Line-Right-for-Texas.html\">Government Technology |\u00a0Is a High-Speed Rail Line Right for Texas?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/transportation\/2018\/04\/02\/dallas-houston-high-speed-rail-plan-will-make-texas-35-corridor-loser-competitor-says\">Dallas Morning News |\u00a0Dallas-to-Houston high-speed rail plan will make Texas&#8217; I-35 corridor a loser, competitor says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/?post=4-point-opposition-to-houston-to-dallas-high-speed-rail-3-counterpoints-of-support-high-speed-v-higher-speed\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(55,55,55);\">4 Point Opposition to Houston to Dallas High Speed Rail. 3 Counterpoints of Support. High Speed v. Higher Speed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is making these statements?\u00a0<\/strong>SNCF America, Inc\u00a0\u00a0in written comments to\u00a0Federal Railway Administration\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51,38,3,10,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-business-trend","category-eminent-domain","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}