Posts Tagged ‘high-speed rail’
High-speed rail complicates development plans in Illinois city
>> Springfield State Journal-Register
Increased traffic from high-speed passenger and freight trains is the big unknown for the future of downtown Springfield, local officials told a team of urban-design specialists from across the country Monday.
Feds open bidding for 130 high-speed passenger rail cars
>> Chicago Tribune
Bidding was opened Friday for companies in the U.S. to submit proposals to manufacture approximately 130 high-speed passenger rail cars, including 88 for Illinois and neighboring Midwest states.
Editorial: Investing in high-speed rail makes sense
>> Detroit Free Press
Amtrak has worked for more than a decade to raise top speeds between Detroit and Chicago. When high-speed rail service covers the entire 280-mile corridor, travel time by train will drop to 3 hours and 45 minutes.
Wisconsin train-builder’s layoffs revive debate over high-speed rail
>> Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The layoffs prompted Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to criticize Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans, claiming their opposition to a major expansion of passenger rail was hurting the prospects of jobs for Milwaukee workers.
Study: Minnesota high-speed rail link would more than pay for itself
>> Rochester Post Bulletin
Nearly $1 billion per year in increased economic activity would result from a proposed Rochester-to-Twin Cities high-speed Zip Rail line, concludes an analysis produced for Rochester Area Economic Development Inc.
High-speed trains to begin test runs in Illinois this summer
>> Springfield State Journal-Register
The first 110-mph passenger trains in Illinois should begin test runs this summer on a 20-mile section of the Chicago-St. Louis line, an official with the Illinois Department of Transportation said Tuesday.
First high-speed passenger train leaves Chicago’s Union Station
>> WBBM
The first high-speed trains in the Midwest are only running to Indiana and southwest Michigan, but eventually will likely be expanded to St. Louis, Detroit and the Twin Cities.
While other states roll ahead, Wisconsin idles on rail
>> Madison Capital Times
Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota are moving ahead with a vast, ambitious plan to connect the country on a scale not seen since the U.S. Interstate System was proposed in the 1950s. But Wisconsin’s in the way.
Conrad deFiebre: A small step forward for intercity rail
>> MinnPost
We now have needed clarification for continued planning and construction of the most important leg of the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative, a 15-year dream of better passenger train service radiating from Chicago to cities in nine states.
U.S. awards $150 million for Chicago-Detroit high-speed rail
>> Crain's Chicago Business
High-speed rail is stuck in neutral in Washington, but the Chicago area continues to reap a bonanza of funding, thanks to money left over from appropriations in earlier years.
