{"id":186426,"date":"2025-10-30T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=186426"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:00:34","slug":"is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=186426","title":{"rendered":"Is Amtrak the End of the Line for US Public Transit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Epp<\/p>\n<p>The railroad once represented the American dream of expansion\u2014and exploitation. But is train travel becoming a thing of the past?<\/p>\n<p>The post Is Amtrak the End of the Line for US Public Transit? appeared first on The Nation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/amtrak-public-transit\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Epp The railroad once represented the American dream of expansion\u2014and exploitation. But is train<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit.jpg",1440,907,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit-300x189.jpg",300,189,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit-768x484.jpg",640,403,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit-1024x645.jpg",640,403,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit.jpg",1440,907,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit.jpg",1440,907,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit-1024x645.jpg",1024,645,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/186426-is-amtrak-the-end-of-the-line-for-us-public-transit-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}