{"id":351,"date":"2019-02-13T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T23:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2019-02-13T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T23:09:40","slug":"gavin-newsom-talks-some-sense-about-high-speed-rail-belatedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom talks some sense about &#8220;high speed&#8221; rail&#8230;.belatedly&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is about time that the chimerical ideal of a &#8220;high-speed&#8221; rail line from SF to Los Angeles was abandoned by our out-of-touch elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/feb\/12\/california-high-speed-rail-la-san-francisco-cancelled\">has finally said<\/a> that the emperor has no clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facts are that a &#8220;high-speed&#8221; rail line is not only too expensive to build, has the opposition of landowners and will have ticket prices that will be unaffordable for ordinarly people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, how about improving the existing rail structure to offer a service which, while beating the bus service times, is subsidized, so inexpensive to use, and is a pleasure to take?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is about time that the chimerical ideal of a &#8220;high-speed&#8221; rail line from SF to Los Angeles was abandoned by our out-of-touch elites. Newsom has finally said that the emperor has no clothes. The facts are that a &#8220;high-speed&#8221; rail line is not only too expensive to build, has the opposition of landowners and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}