Merit not wishful thinking key to winning high speed rail bucks
The good news about Ohio's application for federal high speed rail stimulus funds is that it was submitted on the due date last Friday, but the bad news is that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) stressed that funds will be awarded based not on wishful thinking but the merits of the project.
Demand for HSR dollars greater than supply
In a statement released Tuesday afternoon by the FRA, Administrator Joseph C. Szabo said his agency has received numerous applications from states and groups for the development of high-speed and intercity passenger rail programs for grant funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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- News Source: United Press International | about 1 month agoStimulus money is being put to work ahead of schedule heading into the final quarter of 2009, U.S...During the economic daily briefing, Biden told President Barack Obama that more than 50 percent of American Reinvestment and Recovery Act spending was...
- News Source: Journal Record | about 1 month agoThe department asked for letters from the cities to bolster an application submitted to the Federal Railroad Administration to develop a railway corridor from the Texas state line to Tulsa. The Transportation Department is asking for $2 billion out...
- News Source: Uinta County News | about 1 month agoNew York state has made application to the federal government for a total of $11.6 billion in grants to improve high-speed rail service from Niagara Falls to New York City. The request was made through the state Department of Transportation .
- News Source: Merced Sun-Star | about 1 month agoThe Obama administration said Tuesday it has received applications from 24 states seeking $50 billion for high-speed rail projects, more than six times the money designated in the economic stimulus plan. A decision on which projects will receive...
- News Source: Seattle Times | about 1 month agoThe Obama administration says it will begin divvying up $8 billion designated for high-speed and other passenger rail projects sometime this winter...The Federal Railroad Administration said Tuesday it has received 45 applications from 24 states...
- News Source: The Columbus Dispatch | about 1 month agoPassenger trains might not start for a couple of years, but yesterday state officials hailed the launch of an application to get federal stimulus money for a rail route across Ohio. Last week, officials from the Ohio Department of Transportation and...
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- Blog Source: blog.taragana.comIn prepared remarks at a Chicago rail conference Friday, Federal Railroad Administration head Joe Szabo says $8 billion in stimulus cash for high-speed trains is a down payment on a White House's commitment to modernize railways. Ohio ...
- Blog Source: www.dispatchpolitics.comA group of Ohio members of Congress is urging the Obama administration to grant the Buckeye State a $564 million slice of the high-speed rail stimulus funding pie, but most GOP lawmakers declined to sign the letter sent to ...
- Blog Source: www.energyandcapital.comHigh Speed Rail Phasing Map by America 2050. Source. SCNF, the French company that runs the TGV network, has submitted its own plan to the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for four 220 mph corridors in California, Florida, ...
- Blog Source: www.thetransportpolitic.comMore than forty states submitted $100 billion in proposals for stimulus funding of high-speed rail projects in July. Those applications were preliminary, but they followed with more serious applications at the end of August for the Federal ... Ohio, $
- Blog Source: midnight-populist.blogspot.comOne advantage of the "do another study" approach used by the Bush administration to delay the introduction of High Speed Rail is that a lot of these corridors have been quite extensively studied. So it is that the Ohio Hub has not only ...
- Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.comStates such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois are seeking millions to upgrade existing routes so trains could travel from 79 mph to 110 mph. California is hoping to build a system where trains could at least approach European-like speeds of ...
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