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| Title | Commuter Rail Plan Receives $1.8 Million |
| Extended Title | The federal grant is for study of a proposal by Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders. |
| Abstract | The federal grant "will fund two commuter rail studies—one from downtown Kansas City along Interstate 70 to Independence and Blue Springs, and one on an abandoned rail line toward Raytown and Lee's Summit," and it will also pay "to study a downtown streetcar line from the River Market to Union Station." Although other rail studies have been done in the area before since 1993, this study is supposed be different. "The alignment is slightly different and the plan includes a different kind of commuter rail vehicle than what has been studied before…." |
| Author | Brad Cooper
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| Date | December 22, 2010 |
| Source | The Kansas City Star |
| Location | Microfilm |
| Page | A4 & A5 |
| Subject | Assistance
Mass transit
Railroads
Transportation
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| Local Subject | Commuter Rail
Jackson County, Missouri
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Newspaper Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| CONTENTdm number | 39417 |
