Michigan to get nearly $200M for high-speed rail

Another $268.2 million is awarded to building 21st-century locomotives and rail cars for Midwest services, including Detroit-Chicago. The direct $198 million award is on top of $161 million awarded in October 2010 and $40 awarded in January 2010. Plus, another $204 million was awarded to Illinois and Indiana for portions of the Detroit-Chicago rail corridor in those two states (which also benefit Ohio-Chicago services too)...

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood: Michigan to get nearly $200M for high-speed rail
Published: Monday, May 09, 2011, 9:01 AM
  By The Associated Press 

The federal government is pumping nearly $200 million into high-speed passenger rail projects in Michigan.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says Monday the funds are part of a $2 billion investment stretching from the country's northeast corridor, through the Midwest and on to California.

Lahood says the investments will help create jobs and spur economic development.

About $195 million will be used to upgrade tracks and signals between Kalamazoo in southwestern Michigan to Dearborn, just outside Detroit. The work also will increase train speeds to 110 mph between Chicago and Detroit.

 

Another $2.8 million will be used for an analysis of a new station in Ann Arbor.

READ MORE AT:
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/transportation_secretary_ray_l.html

AND:

http://www.fra.dot.gov/roa/press_releases/fp_DOT_57-11.shtml

 

 

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