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Texas Gets $15 Million for High-Speed Rail

KUT 90.5 | By Ian Crawford, KUT News
Published May 9, 2011 at 1:14 PM CDT
The U.S. Transportation Department has granted $15 million to study a high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.
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The U.S. Transportation Department has granted $15 million to study a high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.

The announced $2 billion worth of funding today to expand high-speed intercity rail travel.  $15 million of that is coming to Texas.

The funding will go toward engineering and environmental work on a high-speed rail corridor between .  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told reporters that the investments will "create jobs, spur economic development and boost manufacturing in their communities."  None of the funding announced today included money for a proposed rail project .

Most of the funding鈥�$795 million鈥攚ent to improving rail infrastructure in the Northeast Corridor, between Boston and Washington, D.C.
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Ian Crawford, KUT News
Ian Crawford joined KUT as News Editor in 2008, after spending over four years as a reporter/anchor at KLBJ Radio in Austin. He began his broadcasting career while still in high school in Southern Oregon. During high school and college at the University of Oregon, he worked at times as a reporter, news anchor, sports play-by-play reporter, music host and commercial producer before moving to Texas in 2003.
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