Governor Culver is pushing for extension of passenger rail service between Des Moines and Chicago, and from Dubuque to Chicago, but some of the folks who live along the Amtrak route in southern Iowa worry they’ll wind up losing passenger routes to those northern hubs.
Governor Culver started last Wednesday at the train depot in Creston. By midday the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Train made a stop in Albia where the high school band waited over an hour for the train to arrive. Culver made a brief speech, standing on the train’s back platform, and he mentioned those new passenger routes.
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“Iowa City to Chicago, for example, to give those students an opportunity to go back and forth between Chicago and Iowa City,” Culver told the crowd in Albia, “to allow people to commute, perhaps, into Chicago to do business there or vice versa.”
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