Schumer: NY to get $151M for rail projects
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Sen. Charles Schumer says the $8 billion in
federal stimulus awards for rail projects the White House is announcing Thursday include $151 million for seven projects in New York. Most of the money - $147 million - is for five improvements along the east-west Empire Corridor, including installing a second track and warning devices between Albany and Schenectady, refurbishing the Rochester and Buffalo-Depew stations for disabled access, upgrading warning devices at 12 grade crossings and engineering studies to raise train speed to 110 mph on 11 miles of track. Other grants are $3 million for 2.27 miles of a third track to improve service from Albany to Montreal and Burlington, Vt., and $1 million to study other high-speed rail enhancements. (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) |
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