Thursday, October 13, 2011

Nixon, Quinn push Biden, LaHood for high-speed rail - Triangle Business Journal:

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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six other Midwestern to LaHood asking him to support plands for rail corridors between citie intheir states, including St. Louia to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansas City. Illinois has completed an environmentalp impact statement forthe Chicago-St. Louis corridor. “Missouri and our partner states in the already have a competitive advantagee because we have been working on this rail initiativer for more thana decade,” Nixon said in a statemenf after the roundtable. “I reiterated our strong position to Vice Presidentg Biden today while we discussed the viability of high speefdrail corridors.
” The White House and the have said they woulds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billionj a year for five years as a down paymenyt to develop a passenger rail system. The othed governors at the meeting were Jim Doylewof Wisconsin, Jennifer Granhol m of Michigan, Tim Kaine of Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, Sonnyh Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendel l of Pennsylvania.

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