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[QUOTE]Originally posted by sfthunderchief: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by PullmanCo: [qb] Well, these went on the KS-DOT website a couple weeks ago... Kansas has its Tier 2 app in: http://www.ksdot.org/PDF_Files/HSIPR-Final-Track-2-Grant-Overview-Document.pdf http://www.ksdot.org/PDF_Files/HSIPR-Final-Track-2-Grant-Application.pdf Kansas wants $10M, no match (all Feddybux), to upgrade the Santa Fe from Newton to the KS/OK line for 79MPH running. BTW, here is what Joseph Szabo of the FRA said October 6: [QUOTE]“We have received numerous applications from states and groups of states for the development of high-speed and intercity passenger rail programs for grant funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These include 45 applications from 24 states totaling approximately $50 billion to advance high-speed rail corridor programs. We also received 214 applications from 34 states totaling $7 billion for corridor planning and smaller projects. Due to the overwhelming response and our desire to lay the groundwork for a truly national high-speed and intercity passenger rail program, we will be announcing all awards this winter. Our selections will be merit-based and will reflect President Obama’s vision to remake America’s transportation landscape. We look forward to further evaluating these proposals and spurring economic development while providing Americans with clean, energy-efficient transportation choices in the years and decades to come.”[/QUOTE]57 chasing 8. 7 dollars chasing every available grant dollar. 79 MPH. Oh, this one is good... I've been googling through ODOT... there is not a parallel grant request for railroad improvement from OKC to the KS/OK state line. When I do my thumbnail map measurement scale of googlemaps, the 85 miles mentioned in the Kansas app strictly covers from the border to Newton. Next up, the preliminary $200K feed a consultant study is due back in December... [/qb][/QUOTE]From what I hear state legislators, city managers, the 3 DOT's involved and others are having a teleconference tomorrow morning via web-link hosted by the City of Edmond Oklahoma. The agenda includes everything you cite, plus the return on investment study being prepared by KU, the development of the State Rail Plan, the Service Development Plan, NEPA study and engineering study. The Senate in Kansas has a draft committee bill for the spring term ready for prefiling. NFA leaders were summoned before the special interim transportation committee at the end of September for guidance on the group of state application for the round 2 application that FRA is planning for next summer. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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