Thursday, June 9, 2011

Nixon, Quinn push Biden, LaHood for high-speed rail - The Business Review (Albany):

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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six other Midwesterh governors, to LaHood asking him to support plans for rail corridorxs between cities intheir states, including St. Louis to Chicag o and St. Louis to Kansas Illinois has completed an environmental impact statementy forthe Chicago-St. Louis corridor. “Missouri and our partnerr states in the already have a competitive advantage becausd we have been workinyg on this rail initiative for more than a Nixon said in a statement aftertthe roundtable.
“I reiterated our strong position to Vice President Bidej today while we discussed the viability of high speed rail The White House and the have said they would from the Americamn Recovery andReinvestment Act, and $1 billion a year for five yeards as a down payment to develop a passenger rail system. The other governors at the meetint were Jim Doyleof Wisconsin, Jenniferr Granholm of Michigan, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Devao Patrick of Massachusetts, Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendello of Pennsylvania.

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