To re-cap: back a year ago, the Obama Administration announced that $8 billion under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would be given to a select number of states to get them started on plans for high-speed rail corridors within their borders. A very large chunk of that money – almost $1.2 billion – was…
This time it’s Ohio, where Republican Governor-elect John Kasich says he’s not going to let people in a “train cult” stop him from killing a proposed passenger rail line that would connect Columbus, the state capital, with Cincinnati and Cleveland. As does the just-elected governor in Wisconsin, Scott Walker, Kasick refers to the project in…
As I’ve said in a couple of earlier posts, there are a lot of practical and environmental reasons why the U.S. should be expanding intercity passenger rail service. Comes now the news that Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, a Democrat, has asked Amtrak to study the feasibility of creating a network of passenger rail service in…