{"id":621,"date":"2009-04-16T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/rail-plan-bypasses-valdosta.html"},"modified":"2009-04-16T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:39:03","slug":"rail-plan-bypasses-valdosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/rail-plan-bypasses-valdosta.html","title":{"rendered":"Rail Plan Bypasses Valdosta?"},"content":{"rendered":"It would take very little tweaking to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fra.dot.gov\/us\/content\/31\">the U.S. DoT&#8217;s high speed rail plan run through Valdosta to get from Macon to Jacksonville, instead of bypassing to the east.\n<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fra.dot.gov\/Downloads\/RRdev\/hsrmap.pdf\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" border=0 alt=\"high_speed_rail_1.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quarterman.com\/images\/high_speed_rail_1.png\"><\/a>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/08\/gsf-rr-1918-map.html\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" border=0 alt=\"gsf1918.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quarterman.com\/images\/gsf1918.jpg\"><\/a>\nMacon-Valdosta-Jacksonville is, after all, the historic route, and the tracks are still there and in use for freight.\nIn the <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/04\/obamas_high_speed_rail_plan.php\">\nfirst phase of the DoT&#8217;s plan,<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n\u201capplications will focus on projects that can be completed quickly and yield measurable, near-term job creation and other public benefits\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\nSo who in Valdosta or Lowndes County is talking to DoT about this?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would take very little tweaking to make the U.S. DoT&#8217;s high speed rail plan run through Valdosta to get from Macon to Jacksonville, instead of bypassing to the east. Macon-Valdosta-Jacksonville is, after all, the historic route, and the tracks are still there and in use for freight. In the first phase of the DoT&#8217;s [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[1966,1809,2045,2051,1798,981,45],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-dot","tag-high-speed-rail","tag-jacksonville","tag-macon","tag-obama","tag-savannah","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-a1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}