It stands for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery and it means a lot of money for railroad projects. Here's a short list:
CREATE - a first-of-its-kind partnership between U.S. DOT, the State of Illinois, City of Chicago, Metra, Amtrak, and the nation's freight railroads. $100 million to improve rail access across the Chicago area, currently a serious choke point. Click here
National Gateway - $98 million for opening up CSX rail corridors in the Mid Atlantic states. Click here
Crescent Corridor - $105 million for Norfolk Southern corridor expansion between Louisiana and New Jersey. Click here
One of the biggest TIGER grants is going to the Penn Station New York City expansion project. Read about it here
Still reading reports about "High Speed" passenger rail projects in various states. Little or nothing about acquiring exclusive passenger rail right of way. Passenger rail running on freight rails is never going to be high speed in the European or Asian style.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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