{"id":2983,"date":"2010-03-04T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2010-03-04T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:00:56","slug":"dont-plan-on-riding-those-new-high-speed-trains-any-time-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/dont-plan-on-riding-those-new-high-speed-trains-any-time-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t plan on riding those new high speed trains any time soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6xyUg4J7Sf8&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a train fan, always have been. I&#8217;d love to see new rail lines developed, but <em>only where they make economic sense<\/em>. Most of the proposed HSR lines don&#8217;t even come close, and as they point out in the video, they don&#8217;t deliver on the other claimed benefits either. I&#8217;ve posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005381.html\" target=\"_blank\">High Speed Railways<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005345.html\" target=\"_blank\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/10\/where-high-speed-trains-can-beat-short-haul-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\">few<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005326.html\" target=\"_blank\">times<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/the-economic-value-of-high-speed-passenger-trains\/\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a train fan, always have been. I&#8217;d love to see new rail lines developed, but only where they make economic sense. Most of the proposed HSR lines don&#8217;t even come close, and as they point out in the video, they don&#8217;t deliver on the other claimed benefits either. I&#8217;ve posted about High Speed Railways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[25,237,15,13],"tags":[158,185],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-railways","category-technology","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-highspeedrail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-M7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}