{"id":188125,"date":"2024-04-25T20:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/groundbreaking-ceremony-held-for-high-speed-train-from-las-vegas-to-los-angeles"},"modified":"2024-04-25T20:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T01:24:26","slug":"groundbreaking-ceremony-held-for-high-speed-train-from-las-vegas-to-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/groundbreaking-ceremony-held-for-high-speed-train-from-las-vegas-to-los-angeles","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking ceremony held for high-speed train from Las Vegas to Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groundbreaking-ceremony-held-for-high-speed-train-from-las-vegas-to-los-angeles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal, transportation and union leaders gathered in Las Vegas Monday to drive spikes into a symbolic rail, marking the beginning of construction for a $12 billion high-speed rail line that will link Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,\u201d Transportation Secretary <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/pete-buttigieg\/\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> said Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/ap\/ap-business\/ap-from-sin-city-to-the-city-of-angels-building-starts-on-high-speed-rail-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ahead of the groundbreaking ceremony<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s really happening this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal, transportation and union leaders gathered in Las Vegas Monday to drive spikes into a symbolic rail, marking the beginning of construction for a $12 billion high-speed rail line that will link Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area. \u201cPeople have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,\u201d Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}