{"id":94691961,"date":"2011-02-09T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/obama-calls-for-53-billion-high-speed-rail-project\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T14:41:00","slug":"obama-calls-for-53-billion-high-speed-rail-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/obama-calls-for-53-billion-high-speed-rail-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Calls for $53 Billion High-Speed Rail Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/2\/Acelatracksboston.jpg\" alt=\"High-speed Acela tracks in Boston, MA (Image: Wikimedia)\" title=\"High-speed Acela tracks in Boston, MA (Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>The funding would improve trains and link existing lines to new ones <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nPresident Barack Obama is calling for a new 6-year, $53 billion spending plan for high-speed rail development in the United States.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe proposal is part of a larger plan to improve the country&rsquo;s aging infrastructure and at the stame time jump-start job creation.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAn initial request for $8 billion in funding for the project will appear before Congress on Monday in the president&rsquo;s new budget proposal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf approved, the money would go toward developing or improving trains that travel up to 250 mph and linking existing rail lines to new projects.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring his State of the Union address last month, President Obama said he wanted to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed trains within 25 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16045\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=wTwIEwch\" target=\"_blank\"> AP <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The funding would improve trains and link existing lines to new ones &nbsp; President Barack Obama is calling for a new 6-year, $53 billion spending plan for high-speed rail development in the United States. &nbsp; The proposal is part of a larger plan to improve the country&rsquo;s aging infrastructure and at the stame time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}