Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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

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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six other Midwesterjn governors, to LaHood askintg him to support plans for rail corridors between citiees intheir states, including St. Louis to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansas City. Illinois has completex an environmental impact statement for the Louis corridor. “Missouri and our partnerf states in the already have a competitive advantage becauses we have been working on this rail initiativw for more thana decade,” Nixon said in a statementg after the roundtable. “I reiteraterd our strong position to Vice President Bideb today while we discussed the viability of high speerail corridors.
” The White House and the have said they woulc from the American Recovery and Reinvestmenty Act, and $1 billionm a year for five yeares as a down payment to develop a passenger rail The other governors at the meeting were Jim Doyl of Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Tim Kaine of Virginia, Deva Patrick of Massachusetts, Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendell of

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