Here are a few updates:

Fantastic news. The first legislation to explicitly authorize a 220 mph high speed rail network in the Midwest has passed the Illinois Senate Transportation Committee. Sponsored and championed by Transportation Chairman Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago), the bill would create the Illinois High Speed Rail Authority, an independent agency tasked with developing a public-private partnership to build, operate, maintain and finance new tracks for passenger trains capable of traveling more than 150 mph. This is historic. The bill is SB2571 (amendment 3). More than 600 members emailed their legislators in support of the bill. Join them now as the bill moves to the floor of the Senate by clicking here.

Combined with Governor Quinn’s support of bullet trains in his State of the State address, the momentum for a public-private partnership to build new tracks for true high speed rail is growing!

-submitted by William Corum