Friday, July 16, 2010

State wants passenger trains to Toledo and Pittsburgh, too

State wants passenger trains to Toledo and Pittsburgh, too
Engineering firm will study new routes
Thursday, July 15, 2010  04:21 PM
By Matt Leingang

ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBUS -- Toledo and Pittsburgh are among the next cities that Ohio wants to connect as part of its developing passenger rail project, state transportation officials said today.

The state has signed a $7.8 million contract with an engineering firm to study new routes that would branch off from Ohio's marquee federal stimulus project -- a $400 million rail system with 79 mph trains connecting Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati beginning in 2012.

The contract with AECOM, a Los Angeles-based company that has worked on California's planned high-speed rail system, will determine routes for a future 110 mph service on four corridors: Detroit-Toledo-Cleveland, Cleveland-Pittsburgh, Toledo-Columbus and Cleveland-Columbus-Cincinnati.

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