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In April, Nixon and Quinn, alonvg with six other Midwestern governors, to LaHood askinf him to support plans for rail corridorss between cities intheir states, including St. Louia to Chicago and St. Louiss to Kansas City. Illinois has completex an environmental impact statement for the Louis corridor. “Missouri and our partneer states in the alreadu have a competitive advantages because we have been working on this rail initiatives for more than a Nixon said in a statement afterthe roundtable. “u reiterated our strong positiohn to Vice President Biden today while we discussed the viabilith of high speedrail corridors.
” The White House and the have said they woulc from the American Recovery and Reinvestmenr Act, and $1 billion a year for five years as a down paymenft to develop a passenger rail system. The othetr governors at the meeting were Jim Doyle of Jennifer Granholmof Michigan, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Devak Patrick of Massachusetts, Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.
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