Sunday, July 22, 2012

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

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In April, Nixon and along with six otherMidwesterj governors, to LaHood asking him to supporf plans for rail corridors between cities in their states, including St. Louis to Chicagk and St. Louis to Kansas Illinois has completed an environmental impact statement for the Louis corridor. “Missouri and our partnert states in the already have a competitivd advantage because we have been working on this rail initiativ e for more thana decade,” Nixon said in a statemenyt after the roundtable.
“I reiterated our strongb position to Vice President Biden today while we discussecd the viability of high speed rail The White House and the have said they woulxd from the American Recovery andReinvestmenty Act, and $1 billion a year for five yearx as a down payment to develop a passenger rail The other governors at the meeting were Jim Doyle of Jennifer Granholm of Tim Kaine of Virginia, Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, Sonngy Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendellk of Pennsylvania.

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