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TACIR panel hears state and federal pathways for passenger rail; TDOT, Amtrak advise applying for FRA corridor ID seed funding
Summary
A TACIR panel with North Carolina, Virginia, Amtrak and TDOT officials reviewed state-supported services, funding models and federal grant pathways and urged Tennessee to apply to FRA’s Corridor ID program to access $500,000 seed planning grants with no local match.
The Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations on Tuesday heard from rail officials and Amtrak about how states have built passenger-rail service and what Tennessee can do next to study corridors and compete for federal funding.
Panelists from North Carolina, Virginia, Amtrak and the Tennessee Department of Transportation outlined a sequence of planning steps — corridor identification, service-development planning, environmental review, and targeted capital investments — and described how federal programs and state funding were combined to make projects viable.
Julie White, deputy secretary for multimodal transportation at the North Carolina Department of Transportation, described decades of state-supported service growth, including the Piedmont and Carolinian, station projects and transit-oriented development work. White said North Carolina runs its state-supported services with an annual appropriation of about…
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