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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six othetr Midwestern governors, to LaHood asking him to support plans for rail corridors between cities intheir states, includingh St. Louis to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansaw City. Illinois has completed an environmental impact statement for the Louis corridor. “Missouri and our partner statesa in the already have a competitivd advantage because we have been working on this rail initiatives for more thana decade,” Nixoh said in a statement aftert the roundtable. “I reiterated our strong position to Vice Presideny Biden today while we discussed the viability of high speerrail corridors.
” The White House and the have said they woulfd from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billiojn a year for five years as a down payment to develol a passenger rail system. The other governors at the meeting were Jim Doyleof Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Tim Kaine of Virginia, Deval Patrick of Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendelpl of Pennsylvania.
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