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Looking Forward to A Feasibility Study Contract

I'm looking forward to an infrastructure company's contract to do a feasibility study for the Trans Texas Railroad Reconstruction project.

The bidder might have the "contract and parameters" available Wednesday, July 5, 2017.  I'm afraid it will take longer, but we'll see.   They seemed okay with our budget of $200,000 or less.  Unfortunately, or fortunately, it might be the first of two or three feasibility studies.

I've been in contact with the Federal Railroad Administration, the Surface Transportation Board, and the Department of Defense.   They haven't promised anything but I haven't asked them for anything. 

I was told of a new freight railroad plan outside of Chicago. The Great Lakes Basin Transportation, Inc.  proposes building a freight railroad, toll road, and a South Suburban Airport.  They're running into the same problem that the Trans Texas Corridor.  They're trying to put too much stuff in one place and pulling all the opponents of those projects in one place.

While there are a number of proposed and actual high speed passenger rail builds out there, ours is the only one that proposes putting together both passenger and freight services. 

Our proposal is low speed rail.  It isn't high tech, it's just tech.

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