^One thing to take from the above story is that IDOT can and should never be expected to be on board with massive rail investment. IDOT is a culture built on automobile mobility and traffic engineering to aid automotive mobility. IDOT should just be bypassed if at all possible in the high speed rail process. i don't know how realistic this is, but I do know that IDOT is notoriously bureaucratic and slow to change and we can expect nothing less than them mucking up the high speed rail funding process and dragging their feet in any way possible. This makes it even more important that the Midwest corridor, first starting in Illinois state, become a federal priority and hopefully spearheaded by LaHood and USDOT.
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