[Ohio-talk] {Disarmed} Fw: Group urges Gov. John Kasich to get high-speed rail on track in Ohio

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From: Sammons, Elizabeth 
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Subject: Group urges Gov. John Kasich to get high-speed rail on track in Ohio


Friends,

I thought this article would be of interest to you. FYI I'm just back from Florida with a touch of color in my cheeks now.


Take care,
Elizabeth




 
  
Saturday March 19, 2011

Group urges Gov. John Kasich to get high-speed rail on track in Ohio
By SCOTT SUTTELL
2:39 pm, March 18, 2011

A group of elected officials and business and community leaders is urging
Gov. John Kasich to get high-speed rail on track in Ohio.

The 12-member group, which includes U.S. Reps. Tim Ryan and Betty Sutton -
both Democrats - and Cleveland real estate developer Ari Maron, wrote a
March 17 letter to the governor asking him to support "an emerging
public-private partnership which seeks to pursue the planning and
development of rail freight and high-speed rail connecting the
Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown-Pittsburgh region."

Gov. Kasich campaigned against and later killed the so-called 3C corridor,
a commuter rail line that would have linked Cleveland, Columbus and
Cincinnati. The governor took heat for rejecting $400 million in federal
money for that project, but he never wavered from his argument that the
line would have been a waste of money because it would have resulted in a
slow-speed, north-south transportation link with no practical value.

Backers of a Cleveland-to-Pittsburgh line argue there's significant
economic benefit to such a project.

The TechBelt Initiative, a consortium of business/industry,
research/education and government entities, "has identified transportation
as a key component of the collaborative to improve mobility of the labor
force, increase access to markets and provide low-cost supply of materials
to and distribution for advanced manufacturing," the letter stated.

"Because of the population density of this region (more than six million
people in just 130 miles), the large number of students attending colleges
and universities (150,000 students, many of whom do not own cars), the
presence of numerous local transit systems, four commercial airports, and
the large number of active and underutilized legacy rail corridors, we
believe this region is well-suited for a more developed rail network,"
according to the letter. "This can and should also be part of a much
larger network linking Chicago with the East Coast."

The letter concluded by asking for Gov. Kasich's assistance in "pursuing
advance planning for this critical undertaking" and stating, "We look
forward to hearing your views on how we can work together to make
high-speed rail a reality in the Northeast Ohio region."

Read more at:
http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20110318/FREE/110319848

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
--Martin Luther King Jr

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's
the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead

Mary M. Butler, Systems Change Coordinator
Ohio Statewide Independent Living Council
670 Morrison Road, Suite 200
Gahanna, Ohio 43230
440-864-3495 (cel)



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