Next month construction will begin on the second phase of building a high speed rail corridor between Chicago and St. Louis
A key step for the future of high-speed rail construction in the United States will begin next month in the state of Illinois. Governor Pat Quinn and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin held a press conference this past Tuesday, March 22, to announce the next phase in their ambitious project to develop a high-speed rail route between Chicago and St. Louis.
"Illinois has always been a strong railroad state and we always will be," Quinn said during his speech at an Amtrak rail yard outside of Chicago.
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The United States government has awarded Illinois $1.2 billion in federal stimulus funding to help expand high speed passenger rail, and the state has committed another $42 million of its own funds. The first section of the project was begun last year, with $98 million worth of upgrades made to a 90-mile stretch of rail tracks from Alton, a town northeast of St. Louis, to Lincoln.
Beginning on April 5 the next step of the project will begin, with $685 million going toward construction of new high-speed rail tracks between Dwight and Lincoln, and connecting Alton and the Mississippi River. A state-of-the-art signal system will also be installed on the route between Dwight and Alton, giving the Midwest one of the most advanced high-speed rail...Read the rest of the article at:
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