{"id":39412,"date":"2019-03-04T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/opinion\/light-rail-and-heavy-appetites\/"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:30:00","slug":"light-rail-and-heavy-appetites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/opinion\/light-rail-and-heavy-appetites\/","title":{"rendered":"Light rail and heavy appetites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sound Transit is considering a site on Kent&rsquo;s West Hill, where the Dick&rsquo;s Drive-In restaurant opened last December, to build a new light rail vehicle operations and maintenance facility.<\/p>\n<p>The site is one of six properties under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Another location Transit officials are considering is the Midway Landfill, which could be cost prohibitive since the property is a Superfund site and could pose significant environmental risks to neighbors and workers at the facility, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound Transit is considering a site on Kent&rsquo;s West Hill, where the Dick&rsquo;s Drive-In restaurant opened last December, to build a new light rail vehicle operations and maintenance facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":39413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-39412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39412"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}