Comments on: Midwest High-Speed Rail Group Starts Lobby Push for House’s $4B Bill http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/08/13/midwest-high-speed-rail-group-starts-lobby-push-for-houses-4b-bill/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: S. D. http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/08/13/midwest-high-speed-rail-group-starts-lobby-push-for-houses-4b-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-78921 S. D. Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:29:07 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=19121#comment-78921 Service to Port Huron and Detroit is not that good if there isn't a direct connection to Toronto on Via Rail. I thought the Twin Cities service would be routed through Madison and Eau Claire. Why isn't the Duluth service on the map? Service to Port Huron and Detroit is not that good if there isn’t a direct connection to Toronto on Via Rail.
I thought the Twin Cities service would be routed through Madison and Eau Claire.
Why isn’t the Duluth service on the map?

]]> By: Dan Johnson-Weinberger http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/08/13/midwest-high-speed-rail-group-starts-lobby-push-for-houses-4b-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-78671 Dan Johnson-Weinberger Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:03:16 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=19121#comment-78671 Thanks for the coverage Elena. This is the first big test for 2010 of whether the Senate will share the bold vision of President Obama and the House and support a significant investment in high speed rail. We launched this site in the hope that advocates from around the nation will join in building the consensus that the Senate should join the House in spending $4 billion on high speed rail in FY2010. We list every state, not just the Midwest, so every American who wants high speed rail can tell their legislators. Really, we should be spending $10 or $15 billion a year on high speed rail if we want to shift more of our intercity travel from oil to electricity, so moving from $1.2 billion to $4 billion in FY2010 is the right direction. Anyway, thanks again! Thanks for the coverage Elena. This is the first big test for 2010 of whether the Senate will share the bold vision of President Obama and the House and support a significant investment in high speed rail. We launched this site in the hope that advocates from around the nation will join in building the consensus that the Senate should join the House in spending $4 billion on high speed rail in FY2010. We list every state, not just the Midwest, so every American who wants high speed rail can tell their legislators.

Really, we should be spending $10 or $15 billion a year on high speed rail if we want to shift more of our intercity travel from oil to electricity, so moving from $1.2 billion to $4 billion in FY2010 is the right direction.

Anyway, thanks again!

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