Rochester doesn’t have enough train travelers to support a coffee shop. Is there really a market upstate for high-speed rail that costs billions?
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Train station work under way
The new Rochester Amtrak station is officially under construction. Officials say that that the station should be completed in 2017. Most of the work happening through this year will be site preparation and design work. CSX, which owns the railway that carries Amtrak trains through Rochester, will remove unused signal poles by the end of […]
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Train station gets federal funding
This morning, House Representative Louise Slaughter’s office announced that Rochester’s new Amtrak will receive $15 million in federal funding. The U.S. Department of Transportation has permanently allocated the funds, says a press release from Slaughter’s office. The money means that the contract for design and construction can be awarded in the fall, it says. The […]
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Rochester train station closer to construction
Construction of a new Rochester train station will start sometime in 2013, says State Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald. The project, which the state is managing, has received $26.5 million in funding commitments from the federal, state, and city governments. And during a press conference this morning, an Amtrak official announced that the rail […]
