If Ohio doesn't use the $400 million for 3C (the Midwest's busiest travel corridor between metros), it goes back to the Federal Railroad Administration for it to reassign to other rail project applications submitted on Oct. 2, 2009. Ohio had no other funding-ready applications, and other states and regions are already chomping at the bit....
GLOBE EDITORIAL
High-speed rail: If they don't want it, we do
October 10, 2010
If politicians in states such as California, Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin can't stomach the idea of a high-speed rail system, the Obama administration should redirect billions of federal dollars to where they belonged in the first place: the busy Northeastern corridor, where population density and public appreciation for train travel both run high.
When the administration handed out $8 billion in rail grants, New England came up mostly short, landing a mere 2 percent of the money. Yet many of the big winners in this competition hardly seem grateful. As The New York Times reported last week, Republican candidates for governor in a number of states are campaigning against the rail projects their states received gobs of federal money to build.
Full editorial at: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/10/10/high_speed_rail_if_they_d
High-speed rail: If they don't want it, we do
October 10, 2010
If politicians in states such as California, Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin can't stomach the idea of a high-speed rail system, the Obama administration should redirect billions of federal dollars to where they belonged in the first place: the busy Northeastern corridor, where population density and public appreciation for train travel both run high.
When the administration handed out $8 billion in rail grants, New England came up mostly short, landing a mere 2 percent of the money. Yet many of the big winners in this competition hardly seem grateful. As The New York Times reported last week, Republican candidates for governor in a number of states are campaigning against the rail projects their states received gobs of federal money to build.
Full editorial at: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/10/10/high_speed_rail_if_they_d
Ken Prendergast
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107
(216) 288-4883
kenprendergast@allaboardohio.org
www.allaboardohio.org
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107
(216) 288-4883
kenprendergast@allaboardohio.org
www.allaboardohio.org
