{"id":1246,"date":"2009-04-17T07:47:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T13:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2009-04-20T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T03:25:05","slug":"obama-seeks-high-speed-rail-system-for-us-nytimescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/04\/17\/obama-seeks-high-speed-rail-system-for-us-nytimescom\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Seeks High-Speed Rail System for U.S. &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The government has identified 10 corridors, each from 100 to 600 miles long, with greatest promise for high-speed development.<\/p>\n<p>They are: a northern New England line; an Empire line running east to west in New York State; a Keystone corridor running laterally through Pennsylvania; <strong>a major Chicago hub network<\/strong>; a southeast network connecting the District of Columbia to Florida and the Gulf Coast; a Gulf Coast line extending from eastern Texas to western Alabama; a corridor in central and southern Florida; a Texas-to-Oklahoma line; a California corridor where voters have already approved a line that will allow travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two and a half hours; and a corridor in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/17\/us\/politics\/17train.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Obama Seeks High-Speed Rail System for U.S. &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasis mine. Great news! Here&#8217;s to hoping that train trips to Duluth and Chicago are in the near future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has identified 10 corridors, each from 100 to 600 miles long, with greatest promise for high-speed development. They are: a northern New England line; an Empire line running east to west in New York State; a Keystone corridor running laterally through Pennsylvania; a major Chicago hub network; a southeast network connecting the District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[139,270,35],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains","tag-amtrak","tag-trains","tag-transit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-k6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}