{"id":40581,"date":"2019-05-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/opinion\/burgers-and-fries-or-trains-and-rails\/"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:30:00","slug":"burgers-and-fries-or-trains-and-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/opinion\/burgers-and-fries-or-trains-and-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"Burgers and fries or trains and rails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sound Transit committee recently removed the Lowe&rsquo;s\/Dick&rsquo;s site from consideration for a light rail maintenance facility.<\/p>\n<p>Public opinion gathered by Sound Transit at open houses and online heavily opposed a maintenance facility at the Lowe&rsquo;s\/Dick&rsquo;s site near South 240th Street and Pacific Highway South. <\/p>\n<p>Sound Transit plans to build an elevated light rail passenger station in Kent near 30th Avenue South and Pacific Highway South, across from Highline College and about one-half mile from South 240th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Sound Transit plans to extend light rail from SeaTac to Federal Way by 2024 and from Federal Way to Tacoma by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sound Transit committee recently removed the Lowe&rsquo;s\/Dick&rsquo;s site from consideration for a light rail maintenance facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":40582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40581","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\/40581"}],"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=40581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40581"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}