{"id":2691,"date":"2020-11-13T17:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2022-11-23T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T21:48:42","slug":"what-a-well-funded-passenger-rail-system-could-look-like-in-the-midwest-under-amtrak-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2020\/11\/13\/what-a-well-funded-passenger-rail-system-could-look-like-in-the-midwest-under-amtrak-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"What a well-funded passenger rail system could look like in the Midwest under &#8220;Amtrak Joe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/cityscape\/2020\/11\/what-a-well-funded-passenger-rail-system-could-look-like-in-the-midwest-under-amtrak-joe\/\">What a well-funded passenger rail system could look like in the Midwest under &#8220;Amtrak Joe&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s little doubt that one of President-elect Biden&#8217;s favorite federal programs is Amtrak, America&#8217;s 50-year-old, subpar rail system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I am very excited that Joe Biden is not Donald Trump &#8211; his overall platform is pretty moderate. However, he is a huge proponent of rail travel, and I would love to see a major expansion in passenger rail in this country. (I&#8217;m sure a very obvious statement for anyone who has ever read my blog)<\/p>\n<p>An infrastructure program that would generate jobs, create mobility and be good for the environment. Let&#8217;s go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a well-funded passenger rail system could look like in the Midwest under &#8220;Amtrak Joe&#8221;: There&#8217;s little doubt that one of President-elect Biden&#8217;s favorite federal programs is Amtrak, America&#8217;s 50-year-old, subpar rail system. While I am very excited that Joe Biden is not Donald Trump &#8211; his overall platform is pretty moderate. However, he is [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-Hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","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=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}