Ohio rail commission OKs stimulus dollars for 22 rail projects
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on May 26, 2009.)
Last week, the Ohio Rail Development Commission (ORDC) approved a plan to administer a package of 22 rail projects funded through federal stimulus dollars. The projects will receive more than $77 million of the more than $700 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act proceeds received by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for stimulus-funded transportation projects.
The projects include:
Norfolk Southern Corp.'s line relocation for V&M Star Steel's expansion in Youngstown ($20 million in stimulus dollars);
CSX Transportation's double-stack clearances for the National Gateway ($20 million);
rehabilitation of publicly owned rail infrastructure in Jackson ($2 million) and Medina ($950,000), and along the state-owned Panhandle Line (bridges and the Gould Tunnel) and Piney Fork Line ($7 million);
a programmatic environmental impact statement for four of the seven proposed high-speed rail corridors in the Ohio Hub Plan. ($7 million);
NS' Airline Yard project ($6.5 million); and
double-stack capacity improvements along NS' Heartland Corridor ($3.6 million).
An independent agency within the ODOT, ORDC oversees freight and passenger railroad concerns, grade crossing safety, and rail travel and tourism issues.
Troll wrote:a programmatic environmental impact statement for four of the seven proposed high-speed rail corridors in the Ohio Hub Plan. ($7 million);
WTF? With the amount of money they spend on all these studies they could have just bought some old passenger equipment and called it a passenger train.
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