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New routes, opportunities create momentum for QC passenger rail

By: Kenda Burrows|March 4, 2025
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    Leaders who updated the Chicago to Moline passenger rail service fight on March 3, 2025 were, from left, Illinois State Sen. MIke Halpin, state Rep. Gregg Johson, Moline Mayor Sangeetha Rayapati, State Director of SMART Transportation Division Bob Guy, and Quad Cities Chamber President and CEO Peter Tokar III. CREDIT CITY OF MOLINE

    To help get passenger rail service from Chicago to the Quad Cities on track, leaders are mulling alternative routes and lawmakers are preparing to leverage a potential Chicago Transit Authority bailout in Springfield to help make it happen.

    Those new developments also have created “new momentum” in the 16-year effort to bring passenger rail service here, according to Illinois…

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