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[QUOTE]Originally posted by sfthunderchief: [QB] Some people think that redevelopment of a passenger corridor is as easy issuing a train order. Others are so pessimistic that they don't believe anything can ever happen. There were doubters who never thought PRIIA would pass. There were those who thought ARRA was just hype (and that wasn't too long ago). I'll bet there are a bunch of people who would not have predicted Ohio would get $400 million. Ohio has been at it for a while. Ohio completed a lot of preliminary GROUNDWORK that made their project "shovel ready". Everything has to start from a first action. There were such doubters two years ago when this effort began in Kansas. Kansas has been moving forward as well. It wasn't entirely their fault that the Amtrak feasibility study, for which discussion originally began in July 2007, is only now being delivered to KDOT next weel on February 6. Last week SB 409, an authorization for a State Passenger Rail Service program was introduced in the Kansas Senate (I wonder who wrote the bill?). This week HR 2552 was introduced in the Kansas House which establishes or authorizes Kansas to become a part of the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission. Hearings on SB 409 are scheduled for 8:30 am on February 3rd in room 152S of the Capitol. The ARRA-KS-OK $500,000 grant is for a Service Development Plan. No state gets funding without having one of these, an engineering study, financing plan, and an environmental impact study. Kansas has already established a task force of stakeholders to compile a new state passenger rail plan due to be completed this summer. FRA believes there will be future funding available for more state projects. This is only the first round. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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