From the NY Times:
More U.S. Rail Funds for 13 States as 2 Reject Aid
Ohio and Wisconsin’s loss of $1.2 billion in federal stimulus money for rail projects will be California, Florida and 11 other states’ gains, federal officials said on Thursday.
Ohio and Wisconsin were among the biggest winners of federal stimulus money this year to build new rail lines in their states; officials in both states had lobbied aggressively for the money in the hopes that it would create thousands of jobs and improve their transportation systems.
But that all changed last month when both states elected Republican governors who vowed to kill the train projects, arguing that they were boondoggles that would leave their states on the hook for subsidies each year to operate the trains. Full article
- High-Speed Rail Goes Off the Tracks in Wisconsin (Oct 29, Time)
- LaHood to Kasich: high-speed train funds only for Ohio's slow-speed 3C train (Nov 10, Columbus Government Examiner)