{"id":6428,"date":"2017-11-10T18:34:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T23:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2017-12-17T18:38:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T23:38:02","slug":"sununu-does-about-face-on-rail-to-try-and-lure-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2017\/11\/10\/sununu-does-about-face-on-rail-to-try-and-lure-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sununu Does About-face on Rail to Try and Lure Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The fact New Hampshire would try and become the site of Amazon\u2019s new headquarters is no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>What was unexpected was that Gov. Chris Sununu\u2019s proposal for the Woodmont Commons development site in Londonderry would include the full-throated support for using a new commuter rail line to bring workers to that property.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indeed considering when campaigning, he came out AGAINST the transportation boondoggle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sununu, a first-term Republican, has been a longstanding opponent of the rail project both as governor and prior to that during three terms on the state Executive Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we have real infrastructure priorities and needs that can help the 700,000 people a day that drive on (the) roads, why should we be spending $300 million for a train so maybe we can send a couple thousand people a day to work in Boston? That makes no sense,\u201d Sununu said while campaigning for the governor\u2019s office last October.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But when asked about the contradiction the Governor said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn terms of the rail, absolutely that\u2019s on the table. Rail has been studied, rail has been proposed, and if Amazon wants to come and we can accelerate those plans then that\u2019s absolutely on the table,\u201d Sununu told reporters recently when asked about the obvious contradiction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/business\/sununu-does-about-face-on-rail-to-try-and-lure-amazon--20171030\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact New Hampshire would try and become the site of Amazon\u2019s new headquarters is no surprise. What was unexpected was that Gov. Chris Sununu\u2019s proposal for the Woodmont Commons development site in Londonderry would include the full-throated support for using a new commuter rail line to bring workers to that property. Indeed considering when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,71,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-governor-watch","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6429,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}