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Ohio House and Senate
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Please join All Aboard Ohio in support of House Bill 2 as approved by the Ohio House of Representatives. This bill includes language which allows the Ohio Department of Transportation to request federal stimulus funding to develop passenger rail services in the state. For details on what’s in HB-2, what the benefits will be from its passage and what will happen if the Ohio General Assembly doesn’t pass it, please click HERE
Specifically, the governor’s budget proposes investing funding in the 3-C Corridor passenger rail and sustainable econonic development initiative including construction, expansion or revitalization of stations, track and signal system improvements, grade crossing safety projects, freight congestion mitigation plus passenger train equipment and operations. Similar infrastructure investments are envisioned between Toledo and Cleveland. Both would permit reliable 79 mph passenger rail services.
It also includes funding requests for environmental impact studies to make the following Ohio Hub routes eligible for an 80 percent share of federal construction funding to implement 110 mph rail service:
- Cleveland - Toledo - Detroit
- Columbus - Toledo - Detroit
- Cleveland - Youngstown - Pittsburgh
Dollar amounts are not yet available in the governor’s budget as Amtrak’s implementation plan for 3-C Corridor won’t be finished until the end of summer. But early estimates are that start-up costs for the Cleveland - Columbus section could be about $100 million, or for the entire Cleveland - Columbus - Dayton - Cincinnati Corridor could be $250 million. See All Aboard Ohio’s testimony to the Ohio House Transportation Committee HERE for ideas about the messages you would like to give to your legislators. Be sure to thank Governor Strickland for his support of passenger rail development in Ohio!
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United States House & Senate
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Please thank your congressperson, two senators and President Barack Obama for boosting passenger rail funding in the federal stimulus from $1.1 billion to $9.3 billion! This huge boost could improve Ohio’s existing (and proposed 3-C Corridor) train services with new rail cars and locomotives, provide funding for new/improved track, signal and stations necessary to start-up Amtrak passenger rail services in the 3-C Corridor (Cleveland - Columbus - Dayton - Cincinnati).
Dollar amounts in the final stimulus package are:
- $27 billion for highways;
- $8.4 for transit;
- $8 billion for passenger rail, high-speed rail development and congestion relief on Amtrak routes;
- $850 million for Amtrak to achieve a state of good repair; and
- $450 million for security upgrades to passenger rail service.
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Contact Information for your two Senators can be found here:
Contact Information for your Representative can be found here:
Contact Information for President Barack Obama can be found here:
All Aboard Ohio 309 South 4th Street, Suite 304,
Columbus, OH 43215
Office: (614) 228-6005