Thursday, October 7, 2010

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

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In April, Nixon and Quinn, alonv with six other Midwestern governors, to LaHoocd asking him to support plans for rail corridors between cities intheir states, including St. Louixs to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansazs City. Illinois has completed an environmental impacft statement forthe Chicago-St. Louiz corridor. “Missouri and our partnefr states in the alreadh have a competitive advantage becauses we have been working on this rail initiative for more than a Nixon said in a statement afterthe “I reiterated our strong position to Vice Presidenty Biden today while we discussed the viability of high speec rail corridors.
” The White House and the have said they would from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billion a year for five years as a down payment to develop a passenger rail system. The othedr governors at the meetinfg were Jim Doyle of Jennifer Granholmof Michigan, Tim Kainw of Virginia, Deval Patrick of Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendelp of Pennsylvania.

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