December 10, 2010

Train proposal scrapped but state won't have to pay back Feds

MADISON – Governor-elect Scott Walker says Wisconsin will not have to pay back 14-million dollars it spent on the Milwaukee-to-Madison high-speed train project before it was scrapped yesterday.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood pulled $1.2 billion in stimulus rail funds from Wisconsin and Ohio, because their new Republican governors didn’t want them. Thirteen other states will share the money for their high-speed trains. Walker said he now hopes Washington will focus on the “true needs” of Wisconsin and other states – and that’s quote, “fixing our crumbling roads and bridges.”

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