{"id":2955,"date":"2019-05-29T15:56:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T19:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2019-05-29T15:56:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T19:56:39","slug":"commuter-rail-nhs-dangerous-proposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2019\/05\/29\/commuter-rail-nhs-dangerous-proposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuter Rail: NH&#8217;s Dangerous Proposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The NH House Public Works and Highways Committee gave an &#8220;OTP&#8221; recommendation to SB 241 along party lines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No Republicans voted with the Democrat agenda to bankrupt NH with a massively costly proposition to extend the MBTA to Concord when it has been proven that only 97% or so of the population would actually use it.  These trains would not be of the &#8216;high speed&#8217; type, but the debt-ridden MBTA out of Massachusetts that averages 33-44MPH on any trip to Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Next step is the full NH House of Representatives will vote&#8230; then it&#8217;s up to the Governor to VETO SB 241 if that passes.<\/p>\n<p>The BRA is keeping track of this bill as well as other bills that are part of the New Urbanism\/Agenda21 fad that would hurt NH. You can see the other bills on BRA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bedfordresidents.com\/bra\/bill-watch\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Watch<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bedfordresidents.com\/bra\/2019\/05\/28\/house-committee-on-sb-241\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about SB 241, the bill to expand the MBTA to Concord&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NH House Public Works and Highways Committee gave an &#8220;OTP&#8221; recommendation to SB 241 along party lines. No Republicans voted with the Democrat agenda to bankrupt NH with a massively costly proposition to extend the MBTA to Concord when it has been proven that only 97% or so of the population would actually use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,23,29,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-international","category-local","category-misc","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}