JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Transportation is seeking federal funding to add a third daily round trip to Missouri River Runner service and add three other Amtrak routes in the state, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
The state DOT is asking Gov. Mike Parson (R) to include the request in his coming budget proposal to help expand the St. Louis-Kansas City service, as well as add trains between Kansas City and Springfield, Mo; Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo.; and an extension of the existing Chicago-Quincy, Ill., Illinois Zephyr-Carl Sandburg operation to Hannibal, Mo.
“All four of these concepts have been identified by communities across the state for years and are currently identified as unfunded needs,” state DOT spokeswoman Linda Horn told the newspaper.
Some of the funding would pay for consultants to begin studies of other new lines.
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