A $56.6 million project with sweeping implicationsfor Michigan’s passenger rail lines, including a quicker ride on Amtrak’s Grand Rapids-to-Chicago route, has failed to obtain the highly competitive federal grant dollars needed to get off the ground.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Friday announced the recipients of this year’s TIGER IVtransportation infrastructure grants, with chunks of the $500 million potdoled out to 47 projects in 34 states.
Absent among the awards was money for the harbor town of New Buffalo, Mich., near the Indiana border, which had requested $56.6 million in TIGER funding to add itself back on Grand Rapids’ Pere Marquette Line.
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