The Milwaukee Intermodal Station is an obvious gateway to Milwaukee. Located at 433 W St. Paul Street, it is in the heart of the city and commerce center, with hotels, entertainment, restaurants and retail stores within walking distance.
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The Anoka County Regional Rail Authority (ACRRA) last week adopted a resolution withdrawing from the Minneapolis-Duluth/Superior Passenger Rail Alliance joint powers agreement that supports the proposed Northern Lights Express (NLX) high speed rail service.
The line would travel daily between Minneapolis and Duluth with stops in Coon Rapids, Cambridge, Hinckley, and Superior, Wisconsin.
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For the first time in its history, Hiawatha Service ridership surpassed 800,000 in 2011. The year-end numbers put ridership at 823,163. According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), that is a nearly four percent increase from 2010 when ridership totaled 792,848.
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Amtrak’s Hiawatha Service, which runs between Milwaukee and Chicago, reached a new annual ridership level in 2011. More than 820,000 riders used the service, making the route the busiest Amtrak corridor in the Midwest.
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The U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, still wants to connect 80 percent of Americans to high speed rail by 2036. That’s the goal that President Barack Obama laid out in last year’s state of the union.
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The Eau Claire City Council hopes to get the governor on board with a rail study.
City council member Dana Wachs has requested a resolution asking Governor Scott Walker to order the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to participate in a rail study.
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Wisconsin, Minnesota and Amtrak officials have started talks that could lead to expanding the current passenger train service between Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
The two states are working with Amtrak to launch a feasibility study of adding a second daily round trip on the Chicago-to-Twin Cities leg of the national passenger railroad’s long-distance Empire Builder line, officials say.
At the same time, a separate Minnesota-led study is advocating a more ambitious – and more controversial – long-range goal: upgrading the same segment to high-speed rail along the current route, bypassing Madison and Eau Claire, disappointing rail backers in both cities.
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If a new high-speed rail line from the Twin Cities to Chicago moves forward, it will likely travel through Milwaukee.
At least, so says the Minnesota Department of Transportation, which recently forwarded its high-speed rail “draft alternatives selection report” to the Ramsey County Regional Rail Authority. The high-speed rail line would follow an existing Amtrak route to the land of “Laverne and Shirley” and “Happy Days.”
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State transportation officials are proceeding with two building projects to upgrade Amtrak service in Milwaukee.
The state Department of Transportation is seeking lawmakers’ approval to spend $5 million designing a maintenance base to service new trains now under construction for the Milwaukee-to-Chicago Hiawatha line.
At the same time, transportation officials have redrawn plans for rebuilding the passenger train concourse at downtown Milwaukee’s Amtrak-Greyhound station.
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