{"id":2484,"date":"2014-03-20T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2014-03-20T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:51:43","slug":"purple-line-rod-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"Purple Line ROD Signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/purplelinenow\/status\/446638660247891968\">Purple Line Now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The MTA just announced that the Record of Decision for the Purple Line has been signed. Formal announcement to follow next week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the Maryland Transit Administration&#8217;s (MTA) website explains, the Record of Decision is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The final approval of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purplelinemd.com\/en\/component\/seoglossary\/1-english-glossary\/9-environmental-impact-statement\">Environmental Impact Statement<\/a> which will be issued by Federal Transit Administration. It is a public document that explains the reasons for a project decision and summarizes any mitigation measures that will be incorporated in the project. Obtaining the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purplelinemd.com\/en\/component\/seoglossary\/1-english-glossary\/61-rod\">ROD<\/a> is the last step in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purplelinemd.com\/en\/component\/seoglossary\/1-english-glossary\/54-nepa\">NEPA<\/a> process. After a ROD is received, permits and right-of-way can be acquired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Purple Line Now: The MTA just announced that the Record of Decision for the Purple Line has been signed. Formal announcement to follow next week. As the Maryland Transit Administration&#8217;s (MTA) website explains, the Record of Decision is: The final approval of an Environmental Impact Statement which will be issued by Federal Transit Administration. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purple Line ROD Signed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[1483,349],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purple-line","tag-mta","tag-purple-line-2"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-E4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}