{"id":2487,"date":"2007-06-05T07:14:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2007-06-05T11:56:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T17:56:45","slug":"re-grapevine-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-grapevine-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Grapevine Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*EDIT*<br \/>\nFrom Waxahachie Council Member <strong>Joe Gallo<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jonathan,<\/p>\n<p>I would be all for it, but the light rail issue is bigger than any one councilmember.<br \/>\nIn fact, it&#8217;s bigger than any one city.<br \/>\nAs far as I know, there are no immediate plans to &#8220;make a push for it.<br \/>\nPaul Stevens can give you a better idea of what the probability of light rail ever coming to Waxahachie and what the important issues and problems are.<\/p>\n<p>-Joe Gallo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*END EDIT*<\/p>\n<p>From the Waxahachie City Manager, <strong>Paul Stevens<\/strong>, regarding rail in Waxahachie:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jonathan,<\/p>\n<p>As you probably know, we did participate in the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) Regional Rail Study and we are shown as essentially the end of the line for the southernmost point of the Metroplex that would have passenger rail.  State Representative Fred Hill did try and get legislation through this session that would allow cities to exceed their sales tax cap if it went toward a transit system.  I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe it passed.<br \/>\nWe do keep up with any movement that works towards regional rail and will continue to do so.  We will attend the Transportation Summit in August and I am sure regional rail and what steps to take next will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nPaul<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, Paul informs me that Waxahachie has a \u00c2\u00bd cent dedicated to the Sports Complex and the Civic Center and another \u00c2\u00bd cent for property tax relief.  Grapevine likely just had a \u00c2\u00bd cent prior to the rail tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*EDIT* From Waxahachie Council Member Joe Gallo: Jonathan, I would be all for it, but the light rail issue is bigger than any one councilmember. In fact, it&#8217;s bigger than any one city. As far as I know, there are no immediate plans to &#8220;make a push for it. Paul Stevens can give you a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-grapevine-rail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Re: Grapevine Rail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ellis-county","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-E7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}