Two Wisconsin passenger rail ideas back on the study track
10 Jan 2024
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Two passenger rail ideas once left for dead — a Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter line and an Amtrak route from Milwaukee to Madison — are back on the study track.
Should these and other proposals come to fruition, passenger trains could one day link eight of Wisconsin’s 10 largest cities to each other, Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Milwaukee is now the only one of those top 10 cities with Amtrak service.
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