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The bulk of New York's high-speed rail funds will be used for improvements on the Empire Corridor (in red), which connects Buffalo with other upstate population centers and New York City. (Click to view more details.) In April, New York’s plan for high-speed rail through upstate appeared in jeopardy after [...] How the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line fits into the New England states' vision for high-speed rail. The Connecticut Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the Massachusetts and Vermont Departments of Transportation, will be holding informational meetings in the coming weeks on the three states’ “2030 Vision for High Speed, Intercity and Regional Rail” service. [...] The New Haven-Hartford-Springfield Rail line is closer than ever to fruition, now that the project has won $40 million from the federal government’s high-speed rail initiative. Thanks to Gov. Jodi Rell, ConnDOT Commissioner Joe Marie, CT House Speaker Chris Donovan, US Sen. Chris Dodd, and advocates, tracks will soon be on the ground for [...] The New Haven-Springfield rail project includes improvements to New Haven's State Street station. After a two-month delay, the Connecticut State Bond Commission on Friday released $26 million to be used for design work and the construction of a second track along a portion of the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line. Initially planned for release in [...] NYSDOT may be lacking money and political support for its newly released 2010-2015 capital program, but the program shows the agency is moving slowly toward a more sustainable policy. As is customary in New York, the program amounts to the same funding level as the transit portion of the MTA’s proposed five-year capital program, [...] Connecticut's high-speed rail application focuses on the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield Line and Northeast Corridor. Tri-State and 21 organizations from Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire have announced support for Connecticut’s application to use federal High Speed Rail funds for the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield corridor. In a letter, the groups called on the Federal Rail Administration, [...] The 11 corridors/regions eligible for high-speed rail funding are in red and blue. Since the New Haven-Springfield line would improve the Northeast Corridor, it could be funded with stimulus money. Connecticut could benefit from the United States’ recently announced national high-speed rail plan — and the $8 billion in stimulus money planned as [...] The just-signed-into law economic stimulus package is a huge opportunity — and a huge test — for state transportation officials. That’s because, of the $46 billion for transportation in the package, $27.5 billion will be distributed through USDOT’s Surface Transportation Program (STP), an ultra-flexible account that can be spent on transit, roads (both maintenance [...] |
 
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