{"id":238649,"date":"2010-01-27T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-giving-8-billion-to-high-speed-rail-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:57:00","slug":"obama-making-biggest-ever-u-s-investment-in-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/238649","title":{"rendered":"Obama Making Biggest-Ever U.S. Investment In High-Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b17dfb000000000004b56f0\/obama-speech.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Obama Speech\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps our rail system won&#8217;t be as big a joke in a decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama will give $8 billion in economic stimulus dollars to 13 U.S. rail corridors on Thursday, primarily for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/of-course-we-should-have-high-speed-rail-2009-10\">high-speed service<\/a>, Bloomberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=akGmApx3GhMY&amp;pos=9\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The funds are the biggest single U.S. investment in high-speed rail ever, and will benefit 31 states.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But which ones will get the money?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hey-congress-heres-where-the-high-speed-rail-funds-should-go-2009-9\">leading contenders<\/a> include Florida, Illinois, California and Amtrak&rsquo;s Northeast Corridor, which runs between Boston and Washington, said an analyst for Concept Capital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Miss: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~3\/N1mjcXNXHuk\/--\">Proof that the American train system is a total joke &rarr;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-giving-8-billion-to-high-speed-rail-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/foreign-companies-willing-to-create-us-jobs-in-exchange-for-a-slice-of-transportation-pie-2009-12\">Foreign Firms Set To Get A Big Slice Of The High-Speed Rail Pie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/of-course-we-should-have-high-speed-rail-2009-10\">Of Course We Should Have High Speed Rail!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hey-congress-heres-where-the-high-speed-rail-funds-should-go-2009-9\">Here&#8217;s Where The High Speed Rail Funds Should Go<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Q_G4dVVIP8bXgOUFON_eu4HQqE0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Q_G4dVVIP8bXgOUFON_eu4HQqE0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Q_G4dVVIP8bXgOUFON_eu4HQqE0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Q_G4dVVIP8bXgOUFON_eu4HQqE0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=N1mjcXNXHuk:aTXVYPIMdBI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=N1mjcXNXHuk:aTXVYPIMdBI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=N1mjcXNXHuk:aTXVYPIMdBI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=N1mjcXNXHuk:aTXVYPIMdBI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=N1mjcXNXHuk:aTXVYPIMdBI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=N1mjcXNXHuk:aTXVYPIMdBI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=N1mjcXNXHuk:aTXVYPIMdBI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=N1mjcXNXHuk:aTXVYPIMdBI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~4\/N1mjcXNXHuk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps our rail system won&#8217;t be as big a joke in a decade or so. President Obama will give $8 billion in economic stimulus dollars to 13 U.S. rail corridors on Thursday, primarily for high-speed service, Bloomberg reports. The funds are the biggest single U.S. investment in high-speed rail ever, and will benefit 31 states.&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}