Georgia gets diddly-squat for high-speed rail funding (Updated)
Peach State misses the train
In June 2009, Vice President Joe Biden wrangled governors for a briefing on high-speed rail stimulus funding. According to a press pool report, Biden jokingly told Gov. Sonny Perdue that “Georgia gets nothing.” Maybe he wasn’t kidding.
The White House this morning announced which states have been awarded grants as part of President Barack Obama’s $8 billion high-speed rail initiative. (Read a PDF of the recipients here.) Such states as Illinois and North Carolina will receive millions (and in Florida’s cases, billions) to put people to work and actually build tracks. Georgia, which for decades has been fixated on roads and nothing else, might get a measly $750,000 to conduct “feasibility studies.”
No tracks, no trains, just more plans. It’s a great day to be a Georgian, ain’t it?