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Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will introduce a version of Representative Jerrold Nadler’s $3 billion amendment to the economic stimulus bill, reports TPM-DC. If the amendment passes, as it is likely to do in the Democratically-controlled chamber, the amendment would provide $1.5 billion more for New Start and Small Start projects and $1.5 billion more for formula grants to transit, adding $1 billion and $6 billion respectively to the numbers proposed in the original draft of the  This is the first piece on a national rail network. The second, revised version is here. A public-works precedent On June 29th, 1956, the creation of a 41,000-mile U.S. Interstate Highway System was authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act. Today, the system of grade-separated, high-speed highway corridors extends across more than 47,000 miles of the national landscape. For a large percentage of Americans, the Interstates have come to define daily life. Largely because of the Interstates, travel within metropolitan areas and between cities is effected primarily by automobile. In an age of increased environmental consciousness and The following Congressmen voted for the Flake Amendment, which would have shut off all funding for Amtrak in the stimulus bill. It fortunately failed, 116-320. Todd Akin (R-MO 2) Ohio’s Governor Ted Strickland prioritizes new “3-C” rail connection between Cincinnati and Cleveland, through Columbus In yesterday’s State of the State address, Governor Ted Strickland (D) announced that he’d be working towards the development of a new rail corridor – the 3C – between Cincinnati and Cleveland, via Dayton and Columbus, connecting the states’ four largest metropolitan areas and implementing the first phase 0f the Ohio Hub plan. This will be the first time in forty years that Ohio’s major cities have been connected by rail – and will mark the first rail service for Columbus, the state capital, in decades. According to Fantastic news for transit advocates… but Senate action is still necessary Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) proposed an amendment that would increase funds for transit by $3 billion; we discussed it last night. $1.5 billion of the funds would go to New Starts; the rest would go to formula transit funds. Representative John Mica (R-FL), ranking member on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, came out very seriously in favor of the amendment, saying that infrastructure projects are expensive, that they need funding, and that this is simply a small percentage of what is needed. Representative Jerry Lewis (R-CA) said he reluctantly opposed  » New York City’s Vision42 Envisions Pedestrian-Only 42nd Street with Streetcar The New York Times reports that the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility advocacy group has published a new report describing the benefits of converting the city’s main Midtown street into a pedestrian mall with a streetcar stopping every block from the United Nations Headquarters at 1st Avenue to the ferry terminal on 12th Avenue. Vision42 calls its proposed service “light rail,” but it fits more of the characteristics of modern streetcar, with stops every block and slow running speeds. The report suggests that the 2.5-mile line would  |
 
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