
US's Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood met with a variety of state governors and officials last week to discuss the $8 billion high-speed rail element of the recovery bill. States have yet to formally submit their applications for the funds, but I want to present you the main information that was presented in that meeting. Here's the
White House's list of attendees:
- California: Chair, High-Speed Rail Commission
- Georgia: Governor Sonny Perdue
- Illinois: Governor Pat Quinn
- Iowa: General Counsel and Deputy Chief of Staff
- Maryland: Acting Secretary of Transportation
- Massachusetts: Governor Deval Patrick
- Michigan: Governor Jennifer Granholm; Director of Transportation
- Missouri: Governor Jay Nixon
- New Hampshire: Deputy Commissioner of Transportation
- New Jersey: Commissioner of Transportation
- North Carolina: Secretary of Transportation
- Ohio: Director of Transportation
- Oklahoma: Assistant Director of Administration, DOT
- Pennsylvania: Governor Ed Rendell
- Rhode Island: Director of Transportation
- Tennessee: Commissioner of Transportation
- West Virginia: Secretary of Transportation
- Wisconsin: Governor Jim Doyle
- Virginia: Governor Tim Kaine
Apart from this list of attendees I've found the following presentations on the
Federal Railroad Administration's website. There is pretty useful information on them. I would like to point out something we already knew, California has the most advanced projects, Florida has the line Orlando-Tampa also ready to be constructed and the other corridors have many "high speed" lines that are not really high-speed as the speed design is lower than what we call high-speed, actually.Anyways, yor can see them here:FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
CALIFORNIA
GULF COAST
NORTHEAST
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
SOUTH CENTRAL
MIDWEST
FLORIDA