Madison, WI/Possible locations for Amtrak station
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Posted 01 August 2009 - 04:15 PM
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Posted 01 August 2009 - 05:03 PM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 06 May 2010 - 09:05 PM
And this story is here.
Madison rail station to be at Monona Terrace
Madison — Reversing himself, Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday that Madison's future high-speed rail station should be placed near Monona Terrace, just blocks from the Capitol.
In deciding against a previously favored location at the Dane County airport farther from downtown, Doyle said he had listened to riders all along the planned Milwaukee to Madison passenger line and a state study that found the convenient downtown location would have lower track costs and 60,000 more riders a year.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 06 May 2010 - 10:35 PM
http://www.chicagotr...0,3657815.story
Will this routing require a back up move?
Sorry about the Title, I see now that it did not fit in the space provided. The Ca is the first part of the word Capitol.
Edited by steve4031, 06 May 2010 - 10:37 PM.
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Posted 09 September 2016 - 01:36 PM
The (UW) Badger Herald, 9/8:
Opinion
It’s about time Madison gets an Amtrak station
Farthest (sic) station is 40 minutes away by car
by Phil Michaelson
The University of Wisconsin has the largest population of students in the state, The fact that Amtrak doesn’t have a station on campus is ridiculous. Guess who’s behind it. Our good old buddy Gov. Scott Walker.
SNIP
What’s not so neat is the fact that Amtrak’s route through Wisconsin runs up from Chicago into Milwaukee and then bee-lines northwest to the Twin Cities. The nearest stop to Madison and the UW campus is about 40 minutes away in Columbus, Wisconsin. Columbus — the city that never sleeps, and a bustling metropolis home to almost a whopping 5,000 people.
All sarcasm aside, it’s just silly that the Amtrak system doesn’t have a stop in Madison.
Phil Michaelson is a junior majoring in biomedical engineering.
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Posted 24 July 2021 - 08:24 PM
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, WI, 7/24/21:
If Madison gets passenger rail, where should the station go?
With prospects high for bringing passenger trains to Madison, the city is restarting efforts to locate a station that would provide access to pedestrians, bikes, buses and vehicles and be a catalyst for economic development.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 25 July 2021 - 08:46 PM
As one can see from the above bunch of items from 11 years ago (those whose hyperlinks still work), the chosen plan was to run trains to Monona Terrace, a convention center near the state capitol and close to downtown. While the whole thing eventually fell through, here's hoping those plans are dusted off and the downtown location is retained.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 18 November 2022 - 11:02 AM
Letter to the Editor of Capital Times, 11/16/22:
Letter | Make market a mixed-use project
Madison has an opportunity to fix a very fiscally, and functionally, challenged Public Market project at First and East Johnson streets. And the solution is not putting more taxpayer money into it but making a better project.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 18 November 2022 - 11:04 AM
Letter to the Editor of Capital Times, 11/17/22:
Letter | Airport best site for Amtrak station
It’s recently been suggested that Madison should have an Amtrak station as part of the proposed public market at East Johnson and First streets. That’s a move in the right direction (that is, away from the disaster that would’ve been the earlier proposed Monona Terrace location) but it doesn’t get all the way to where it should be: Dane County Regional Airport.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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