JOE BIDEN AND RAY LAHOOD MEETING WITH STATE GOVERNORS TO DISCUSS HIGH-SPEED RAIL

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JOE BIDEN AND RAY LAHOOD MEETING WITH STATE GOVERNORS TO DISCUSS HIGH-SPEED RAIL 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 ADMINISTRATIONCALIFORNIAGULF COASTNORTHEASTPACIFIC NORTHWESTSOUTH CENTRALMIDWESTFLORIDA

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