{"id":34498,"date":"2015-01-09T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/news\/opinion-why-you-should-embrace-bullet-train\/"},"modified":"2015-01-09T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:35:00","slug":"opinion-why-you-should-embrace-bullet-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/opinion-why-you-should-embrace-bullet-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Why you should embrace bullet train","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It felt as if it was never going to happen. But California&#8217;s long-awaited bullet train project finally broke ground this month. The initial leg is to carry passengers from the Central Valley to Los Angeles County, with an ultimate goal of connecting the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives are still complaining that the project is too expensive. At $68 billion \u2014 and, government being government, you know there will be overruns \u2014 it certainly isn&#8217;t going to be cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete column at the <a href=\"http:\/\/touch.latimes.com\/#section\/-1\/article\/p2p-82489384\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It felt as if it was never going to happen. But California&#8217;s long-awaited bullet train project finally broke ground this month. The initial leg is to carry passengers from the Central Valley to Los Angeles County, with an ultimate goal of connecting the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. 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