Sunday, September 9, 2012

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

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In April, Nixon and along with six otherMidwestern governors, to LaHood asking him to supporrt plans for rail corridors betweenj cities in their states, includin St. Louis to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansas Illinois has completed an environmental impacft statement forthe Chicago-St. Louis “Missouri and our partner states in the alreadg have a competitive advantage becausse we have been working on this rail initiativwe for more thana decade,” Nixon said in a statemeny after the roundtable. “I reiterated our strong position to Vice President Biden today while we discussed the viabilitty of high speedrail corridors.
” The White Houses and the have said they would from the American Recoveryg and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billion a year for five yeare as a down payment to develop a passengee rail system. The other governors at the meetinvg were Jim Doyleof Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Tim Kaine of Virginia, Deva Patrick of Massachusetts, Sonny Perdue of Georgiza and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.

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