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We are supposed to be about two years away from Phase One being in operation (if the politicians don’t stop fighting, that could be longer of course).  Phase Two would connect Detroit/Toledo/Cleveland. There is already service (not high speed but service) from Toledo to Chicago so this phase would help bring the Ohio Hub to [...]

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Here is a Columbus Dispatch article on Federal monies going to various States including  Ohio.  We don’t know how much yet, but might by the end of the day.  The article says we are getting $400 million……stay tuned to see how much it actually will be.  Peace Out -3C Update: Per the US Labor Secretary, we [...]

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We have the 3C Corridor planned, but The Ohio Hub goal has always been to give Ohio economically useful high speed rail.  And the competition has always been tough. You can read Regina Fields’ article in today’s PD here.  We’ve joined with eight other States with the hopes that there is success in numbers. We [...]

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Andrew Taylor’s  AP article discusses it here.  The amount of money available for high speed rail went up to almost 13 billion dollars.  You can read about everything that happened today on The Hill here  in the Congressional Record Digest. I’m thinking we could entice rail making companies to our shores…remember the idea of taking [...]

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Yes, it’s with our money but so what? I think it took me a full 24 hours to actually believe this happened. Here is the transcript from the White House website, outlining the Obama/Biden declaration that high speed rail is the way of the future for the United States. Some quotes from Obama: “ What we’re [...]

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Okay first, an update on the American Reinvestment and Recovery portion of the Stimulus Package the President signed in Denver today. The home buying tax credit?  It’s still only for first time home buyers. But, it’s now officially $8000 instead of $7500. Yes I know it’s been bantered around for a few days now but my [...]

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If Ohio were to build a high speed rail system would you use it? Yes  63.3% No  19.8% Not sure  16.9% The above are results of a WKYC on line poll being conducted – and you can vote too. Would you support passenger rail improvements in Ohio? The poll information was at the end of [...]

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The All Aboard Ohio site has a full listing, but as part of the task force, there was a good list made up regarding rail in Ohio.  Here is the pdf task force report. (From Ohio Dept of Transp) I received this from the All Aboard Ohio executive director, Ken Prendergast, today: See http://www.allaboardohio.org/cms/index.php for [...]

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