Monday, June 11, 2012

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

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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six othe r Midwestern governors, to LaHood asking him to support planxs for rail corridors between cities intheid states, including St. Louiw to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansas Illinois has completed an environmentaol impact statement forthe Chicago-St. Louis corridor. “Missouri and our partner stated in the already have a competitive advantage because we have been working on this rail initiatives for more thana decade,” Nixon said in a statement aftetr the roundtable. “I reiterated our stront position to Vice President Biden today while we discussed the viabilitg of high speedrail corridors.
” The White House and the have said they woul d from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billionb a year for five years as a down paymenf to develop a passengetr rail system. The other governors at the meeting were Jim Doyleeof Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Tim Kaine of Virginia, Deval Patrick of Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.

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