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Ohio has received a lot of federal grants with grants for a study of 3C+D, Detroit-Toledo-Cleveland, Chicago-Fort Wayne-Columbus-Pittsburgh, and Daily Cardinal all being given 500k to enter the Corridor ID program

Breaking: Brown Announces First Step in Expanding Amtrak in Ohio | U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Department of...

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t-s-n-s-s-a-g-turnip asked:

with the FRA funding going to projects in the NEC what do you think is the likelihood of 3C+D (the project to have amtrack route cleveland colombus dayton cincinnati) of actually happening

It’s likely on the condition that Ohio decides to not be terrible for once and the idiotic pissbaby Micheal Dewine approves state funding for the project

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omystydia asked:

ive heard about trying to get amtrak stations in dayton and columbus, do you have any information on that (or on how i can support making that happen)?

Right now the 3c+d line is under federal review before the line gets funding from the Feds, what you need to do is put pressure on local state legislators to fund it locally so the funds don’t get redirected elsewhere

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bl00000g asked:

Thoughts on ohio?

Needs more rail, I’d prescribe 3 daily RTs of a 3C+D line to help it recover

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So with the current map that the FRA has released, here are what I think are most likely to get approved, in the bright lime green.

Here is my reasoning for all of them. If you think other routes have a high likelihood please explain why, I want to know.

• Cheyenne-Denver-Trinidad, already has state funding from Colorado and is one of the most important routes on this list as it will serve the front range corridor
• Yuma-Pheonix-Tucson, amtrak has already applied for funding for the route with its long distance service improvements request
• Bakersfield-Barstow, It fills in a massive gap with the bay area and LA by connecting them
• Oklahoma City-Wichita-Newton, Oklahoma has made it clear that they want to extend the Heartland Flyer and the Line has already had studies done
• Meridian-Jackson-Marshall-Fort Worth, The Cresent Extension is one of the main plans of the southern rail commission and is another key connection point in the amtrak system
• Minneapolis-Duluth, Minnesota already approved funding for the line
• Chicago-Indianapolis-Louisville- Nashville-Atlanta–Savannah-Miami, it is a more obvious route than the Floridian and the one the FRA focused on in the planning document, it also fills in the 2 largest missing corridors of Chicago to Atlanta and Miami.
• Sandport-Helena-Billings-Fargo, The North Coast Hiawatha is pretty much the reason this study was created by Jon Tester and also is an important previous route
• Cincinnati-Dayton-Columbus-Cleveland, it was going to be a route in the 2010s but got shelved and has also been planned. Everyone wants this to happen and Dewine might fund it

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Anonymous asked:

Why do you hate Columbus?

It’s not me, it’s John Kasich who hates Columbus

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porousfox asked:

Amtrak official, when will you put a train station in columbus?

When the FRA approves funding for the 3c+d line. We also need the pissbaby Micheal Dewine to not give the money back to the government like Kasich did

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xwingstarfighters asked:

sad bc even though Columbus is the biggest city in Ohio by a significant margin there's no amtrak lines that run through it :( do you know why?? bc I am baffled

Because that bastard Governor Kasich gave the money to build 3c+d back to Obama when we were going to build it

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I know that the girlies are quite literally going to starve if we don’t build 3c+d, the Chicago-Louisville line and Front Range Rail, but have you considered we could just delay these key infrastructure projects a few years

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We know that you want updates on 3C+D and the Louisville-Chicago line, but we are part of the US government and therefore everything will take twice as long, is full of bureaucracy, and you’ll be lucky if we give you any information on the project before contract bidding begins