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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six othert Midwestern governors, to LaHood askingf him to support plans for rail corridors betweenj cities intheir states, including St. Louis to Chicago and St. Louias to Kansas City. Illinois has completed an environmentalo impact statement forthe Chicago-St. Louise corridor. “Missouri and our partner stateas in the already have a competitive advantagew because we have been working on this rail initiative for more than a Nixon said in a statement afteerthe roundtable. “I reiterated our strong position to Vice Presidenr Biden today while we discussed the viabilityg of high speedrail corridors.
” The White House and the have said they woul d from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billion a year for five years as a down paymenrt to develop a passenger rail The other governors at the meeting were Jim Doylre of Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, Tim Kaine of Deval Patrick of Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Ed Rendel l of Pennsylvania.