{"id":247042,"date":"2010-01-29T13:05:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/29\/obama-announces-8-billion-for-high-speed-trains\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:05:30","slug":"obama-announces-8-billion-for-high-speed-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247042","title":{"rendered":"Obama Announces $8 Billion For High Speed Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4588 alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/01\/rail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" \/>Trains are an integral part of American history, and, until the turn of the 20th century, they were the main mode of long distance transportation for most people&#8230; hence the reason why owning all four railroads in a Monopoly game is awesome. But trains aren&#8217;t what they used to be, at least in this country. We lack a real, innovative, high speed train system.<\/p>\n<p>That might just change though as the Obama administration announced $8 billion in grants to over a dozen states to build, upgrade, and otherwise improve rail systems. But is it going to be enough?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/29\/obama-announces-8-billion-for-high-speed-trains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=IhyV-8nMgN4:vc7cjUOUVBM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=IhyV-8nMgN4:vc7cjUOUVBM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=IhyV-8nMgN4:vc7cjUOUVBM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=IhyV-8nMgN4:vc7cjUOUVBM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=IhyV-8nMgN4:vc7cjUOUVBM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=IhyV-8nMgN4:vc7cjUOUVBM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=IhyV-8nMgN4:vc7cjUOUVBM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=IhyV-8nMgN4:vc7cjUOUVBM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/IhyV-8nMgN4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trains are an integral part of American history, and, until the turn of the 20th century, they were the main mode of long distance transportation for most people&#8230; hence the reason why owning all four railroads in a Monopoly game is awesome. But trains aren&#8217;t what they used to be, at least in this country. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247042","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\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}