JOE BIDEN AND RAY LAHOOD MEETING WITH STATE GOVERNORS TO DISCUSS HIGH-SPEED RAIL

US´s Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood met with a variety of state governors and officials last week to discuss the $8 billion high-speed rail element of the recovery bill. States have yet to formally submit their applications for the funds, but I want to present you the main information that was presented in that meeting. Here’s the White House’s list of attendees:

• California: Chair, High-Speed Rail Commission
• Georgia: Governor Sonny Perdue
• Illinois: Governor Pat Quinn
• Iowa: General Counsel and Deputy Chief of Staff
• Maryland: Acting Secretary of Transportation
• Massachusetts: Governor Deval Patrick
• Michigan: Governor Jennifer Granholm; Director of Transportation
• Missouri: Governor Jay Nixon
• New Hampshire: Deputy Commissioner of Transportation
• New Jersey: Commissioner of Transportation
• North Carolina: Secretary of Transportation
• Ohio: Director of Transportation
• Oklahoma: Assistant Director of Administration, DOT
• Pennsylvania: Governor Ed Rendell
• Rhode Island: Director of Transportation
• Tennessee: Commissioner of Transportation
• West Virginia: Secretary of Transportation
• Wisconsin: Governor Jim Doyle
• Virginia: Governor Tim Kaine

Apart from this list of attendees I´ve found the following presentations on the Federal Railroad Administration´s website. There is pretty useful information on them. I would like to point out something we already knew, California has the most advanced projects, Florida has the line Orlando-Tampa also ready to be constructed and the other corridors have many "high speed" lines that are not really high-speed as the speed design is lower than what we call high-speed, actually.
Anyways, yor can see them here:

FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION

Federal Railroad Administration

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CALIFORNIA

California Hsr

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GULF COAST

Gulf Coast Corridor Hsr

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NORTHEAST

Northeast Hsr

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PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Pacific Northwest

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SOUTH CENTRAL

South Central Corridor

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MIDWEST

M I D W E S T H S R

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FLORIDA

Florida Hsr

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