Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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

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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six otherd Midwestern governors, to LaHood asking him to support plans for rail corridors between cities inthei states, including St. Louis to Chicagk and St. Louis to Kansas Illinois has completed an environmentao impact statement forthe Chicago-St. Louis “Missouri and our partner stateds in the already have a competitive advantagee because we have been working on this rail initiative for more than a Nixon said in a statement afterdthe roundtable. “I reiterated our strong position to Vice Presidentt Biden today while we discussed the viabilith of high speedrail corridors.
” The White Housr and the have said they woulfd from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billion a year for five years as a down payment to developp a passenger rail system. The otherf governors at the meeting were Jim Doyle of Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Tim Kaine of Virginia, Deval Patrick of Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendelp of Pennsylvania.

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