Thursday, September 1, 2011

Nixon, Quinn push Biden, LaHood for high-speed rail - St. Louis Business Journal:

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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six other Midwesterbn governors, to LaHood asking him to suppory plans for rail corridors betweenm cities intheir states, including St. Loui to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansase City. Illinois has completed an environmental impactr statement forthe Chicago-St. Louie corridor. “Missouri and our partner states in the alread have a competitive advantagee because we have been working on this rail initiative for more than a Nixon said in a statemengt afterthe roundtable. “I reiteratee our strong position to Vice President Biden today whilde we discussed the viability of high speeerail corridors.
” The White Houses and the have said they would from the Americajn Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billion a year for five years as a down payment to developo a passenger rail system. The other governors at the meeting were Jim Doyldeof Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Tim Kaine of Virginia, Devalo Patrick of Massachusetts, Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendellk of Pennsylvania.

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