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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Outside of Evansville, The Entire Midwest is Preparing For Passenger Rail

progressohio.org

The following are diagrams of proposed passenger rail lines from the Midwest High Speed Rail Association. Not pictured is the current proposed route going from Chicago to Champaign to Indianapolis...

http://cee.illinois.edu/HSR_research

Notice, in the MWHSR pictures, Evansville remains only one of a few cities in the Midwest not planning for passenger rail...

Map KeyHigh Speed Rail - 125-220mph
Regional Rail - 80-125mph
Commuter Rail - 50-100mph

http://www.midwesthsr.org/projects-by-state

(Note the map of Indiana below has Evansville as a "proposed Amtrak" route. This was put in after State Senator Dennis Avery requested $300,000 for a study for a route going from Evansville to Chicago. The study was left out of the 2009 budget and has since been abandoned. The newly created map from the Midwest High Speed Rail Association leaves Evansville out once more: http://www.midwesthsr.org/network)
Illinois
Indiana

Iowa

Michigan

Minnesota


Missouri

Ohio


Wisconsin

Will Evansville join the rest of the Midwest?
http://www.midwesthsr.org/sites/default/files/images/map_integrated_network.gif