Kansas Guv Kelly Celebrates Fed Cash For Old School Passenger Train Travel

At a time when Europe & the Far East are quickly moving to make high speed rail a reality.

Here's the Kansas Guv celebrating some federal free money to study a mode of transit that most people gladly abandoned about 80 years ago . . .

As part of $8.2 billion in federal funding for passenger rail, the Kansas Department of Transportation is receiving $500,000 through the Federal Rail Administration’s Corridor Identification and Development (ID) Program that will support the service development plan for the Heartland Flyer Extension.

The proposed corridor would include new station stops in Edmond, Perry and Ponca City, Okla. and Arkansas City, Wichita and Newton, in Kansas.

“The extension of the Heartland Flyer Passenger Rail would further connect Kansans to Oklahoma City and North Central Texas, unlocking business, educational, and cultural opportunities to Kansans and enabling our neighbors to the south to add to the Kansas economy,” Governor Laura Kelly said. “One of Kansas’ greatest assets is that we are in the center of the country, which is why my administration has supported rail projects like this to build on that strength.”

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