Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Nixon, Quinn push Biden, LaHood for high-speed rail - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six other Midwestern governors, to LaHood asking him to support plans for rail corridorsd between cities intheir states, includinv St. Louis to Chicago and St. Louiss to Kansas City. Illinois has completed an environmentao impact statement forthe Chicago-St. Louiz corridor. “Missouri and our partner states in the alreaduy have a competitive advantage because we have been working on this rail initiativ e for more thana decade,” Nixobn said in a statementg after the roundtable. “I reiterated our strongf position to Vice President Biden today while we discussed the viabilityg of high speedrail corridors.
” The White House and the have said they woulr from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billionm a year for five years as a down payment to develop a passenger rail The other governors at the meetingb were Jim Doyle of Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Deval Patric of Massachusetts, Sonny Perdue of Georgis and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.

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