{"id":90592368,"date":"2011-02-09T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/president-obama-calls-for-53-billion-in-high-speed-rail-spending\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:28:21","slug":"president-obama-calls-for-53-billion-in-high-speed-rail-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/president-obama-calls-for-53-billion-in-high-speed-rail-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Calls for $53 Billion in High-Speed Rail Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One month after he touted the importance of high-speed rail development in America\u2019s future, President Barack Obama unveiled a spending plan that would allocate $53 billion for such projects over the next 6 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his State of the Union address in January, Obama said he wanted to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed trains within the next 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This new spending plan would go a long way toward making that goal a reality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An initial $8 billion funding request for the project will appear before Congress on Monday in the president\u2019s new budget proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If approved, that funding would go toward developing or improving trains that travel up to 250 mph and linking existing rail lines to new projects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16045\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=wTwIEwch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> AP <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month after he touted the importance of high-speed rail development in America\u2019s future, President Barack Obama unveiled a spending plan that would allocate $53 billion for such projects over the next 6 years. &nbsp; In his State of the Union address in January, Obama said he wanted to give 80 percent of Americans access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90592368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90592368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90592368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90592368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897840,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90592368\/revisions\/98897840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90592368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90592368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90592368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}