Saturday, June 2, 2012

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

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In April, Nixon and along with six otherrMidwestern governors, to LaHood asking him to support plans for rail corridor between cities in their including St. Louis to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansas Illinois has completed an environmentalo impact statement forthe Chicago-St. Louisz corridor. “Missouri and our partner states in the alreadgy have a competitive advantage because we have been workinf on this rail initiative for more than a Nixon said in a statementg afterthe roundtable.
“I reiterated our stronyg position to Vice President Biden today while we discussexd the viability of high speed rail The White House and the have said they wouldf from the American Recovery andReinvestment Act, and $1 billion a year for five yeard as a down payment to develop a passenger rail The other governors at the meeting were Jim Doyle of Wisconsin, Jennifere Granholm of Michigan, Tim Kaine of Deval Patrick of Sonny Perdue of Georgisa and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.

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