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More high-speed rail funding for 13 states
The Department of Transportation redirects high-speed rail funding rejected by Wisconsin and Ohio state leaders to projects elsewhere.
When a handful of state policymakers said last month they didn't want their share of the Recovery Act's $10 billion for high-speed rail, California senators offered to take the money for their own 800-mile system. (See: Where should rejected high speed rail funds go?)
Today, the Golden State got what it asked for.
A dozen other states received more federal rail funding, too. The Department of Transportation announced they will divvy up the almost $1.2 billion slated for Wisconsin's Milwaukee-Madison corridor and Ohio's "3C" line between Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland as follows:
- California: up to $624 million
- Florida: up to $342.3 million
- Washington State: up to $161.5 million
- Illinois: up to $42.3 million
- New York: up to $7.3 million
- Maine: up to $3.3 million
- Massachusetts: up to $2.8 million
- Vermont: up to $2.7 million
- Missouri up to $2.2 million
- Wisconsin: up to $2 million for the Hiawatha line
- Oregon: up to $1.6 million
- North Carolina: up to $1.5 million
- Iowa: up to $309,080
- Indiana: up to $364,980
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This post was originally published on Smartplanet.com