When a handful of state policymakers said last month they didn't want their share of the Recovery Act's $10 billion for high-speed rail, California senators offered to take the money for their own 800-mile system. (See: Where should rejected high speed rail funds go?)
Today, the Golden State got what it asked for.
A dozen other states received more federal rail funding, too. The Department of Transportation announced they will divvy up the almost $1.2 billion slated for Wisconsin's Milwaukee-Madison corridor and Ohio's "3C" line between Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland as follows:
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