{"id":443806,"date":"2026-06-02T06:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=443806"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:59:39","slug":"ara-joins-stop-the-rail-merger-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=443806","title":{"rendered":"ARA Joins Stop the Rail Merger Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARA has joined a coalition of agriculture, manufacturing, energy, labor, and transportation stakeholders in opposing the proposed Union Pacific (UP) \u2013 Norfolk Southern (NS) merger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Stop the Rail Merger Coalition believes that this merger would reduce competition, weaken service reliability, and raise shipping costs across large portions of the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Surface Transportation Board (STB) reviews this application, ARA will work with coalition partners to ensure that the board\u2019s decision enhances competition and benefits consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stop the Rail Merger Coalition believes that this merger would reduce competition, weaken service reliability, and raise shipping costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":250974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080,47,7298,46],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-443806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-norfolk-southern","category-rail-news","category-surface-transportation-board-stb","category-union-pacific","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443807,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443806\/revisions\/443807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}