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[QUOTE]Originally posted by sfthunderchief: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [qb] Mr. Thunderchief, I certainly accept that the proponents of a Kansas HSR project are in better straits for having a 'we want trains' resolution passed than not. I am also aware, then even though the proponents struck out with regards to ARRA '09 funding, the door for Federal funding is not closed, for if proper seed money is funded at Local level, then a grant application for FTA funding can be filed. However, I do not know (I'll bet Mr. Resor does) what is the 'you want it/you got it ratio" (the 12/1 ARRA '09 measurement often noted here) with the FTA. I would have preferred to have seen the [URL=http://www.railforum.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/11/6089.html#000000] $8B for HSR[/URL] all applied to the Corridor - the one sure bet Amtrak has - where the consultants have already been fed and the environment has already been impacted. But in view of that I didn't exactly hop off the Mayflower yesterday, I'm quite aware that just ain't how they do things in Wonderland. [/qb][/QUOTE]Gilbert, I have a friend who is one of the Alliance leaders. The Alliance began as a grass routes advocacy, basically studying the route and providing information to communities and officials in public meetings. My friend told me that KDOT and ODOT have not been at all eager to see rail service develop, in fact these departments have been passive- agressively lazy. I also heard that the actions, or lack of action on the part of KDOT has really irritated senators and representatives in both parties and they are more and more fed up with KDOT demanding ever increasing highway funds, while not getting up from the lazy boy when it comes to taking steps to secure the lucrative funding available for passenger rail service. KDOT has been quick to blame Amtrak for slowness, whine about this initiative being up to the legislature, and only acting when the legislature tells them to. After the transportation committee meeting last spring the KDOT secretary called up Amtrak seeking a shoulder to cry on "saying she had been read the riot act by the senate transportation committee." As if in testament to what I've heard, it seems reasonable that the legislature may actually be getting fed up with the slow response of KDOT: 2 votes - 2 supermajority votes; 112-10 and 37-3 respectively. This overides the Kansas Constitutional Prohibition myth associated with Article 11: Section 9. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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