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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Proposed
passenger rail line between Midwest City, Bricktown gains steam<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=foot style='line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Wednesday,
June 03, 2009<br>
By Heide Brandes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'>Passenger rail isn’t a new concept in the Oklahoma City
metro area, but when President Barack Obama announced plans in April to spend
$8 billion of the $787 billion federal stimulus money on high-speed rail,
suddenly that old concept got a breath of new life.</span><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'>The Federal Railroad Administration has identified 10 passenger
rail projects around the country, including one that links Little Rock, Ark.,
to Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and then on to Texas with stops in Dallas-Fort Worth,
Austin and San Antonio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'>But another short-line rail project may be ahead of the pack.
It’s the little rail line that could — a stretch of state-owned
rail and right-of-way that stretches from Tinker Air Force Base/Midwest City
into Bricktown. And, if all logistics fall into place, this commuter rail could
be a concept that is close to reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'>Why? Before stimulus money was even part of the mix, a plan to
purchase abandoned rail lines in Oklahoma put this little jaunt of a railroad
in prime position to be a stimulus grant project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'>But, according to new Oklahoma Secretary of Transportation Gary
Ridley, “All interested parties have to come together on this.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:15.6pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'>Excpert from this weeks’ Ok Gazette. More here ::: <a
href="http://bit.ly/JatYW">http://bit.ly/JatYW</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='line-height:150%;
font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:black'>::: shauna </span><span
style='line-height:150%;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:#913200'>lawyer</span><span
style='line-height:150%;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";color:black'>
struby</span><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#913200'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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