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Chug no more: $150 million for regional high-speed rail
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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Michigan will be receiving $150 million to help develop a high-speed rail corridor between Kalamazoo and Dearborn.
News came out Monday that the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program will be awarding the money, along with a $3.2 million planning grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Michigan has the existing rail lines from Chicago to Detroit, but is lacking the upgrades to get the trains up to a higher speed.
Although it won't be announced until today as to how the $150 million will be allocated, Carmine Palombo, transportation director for the
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
, says the announcement was great news overall. "Being able to make that sort of investment in that high-speed rail corridor is great," he says.
Among the beneficiaries will be Amtrak and freight rail, but also everyone trying to establish a commuter rail service between Detroit and Ann Arbor, too. One project that was identified as necessary was the connection west of Detroit, where there is consistently a bottleneck between usage of the track by freight and passenger services. Fixing that alone would take about 5-7 minutes off the time between Detroit and Ann Arbor, Palombo says.
"That's a pretty good chunk of time that would be saved as a result of this project," he says.
It was also announced in January that Michigan will be receiving $40 million for train station development.
Source: Carmine Palombo, transportation director for SEMCOG
Writer: Kristin Lukowski
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