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Amtrak is expanding its passenger rail service in West Michigan and across the state

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Grand Rapids-Chicago Corridor receiving $500,000.

Money from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is being invested in three railroad corridor projects. The Federal Railroad Administration is providing the Michigan Department of Transportation with $500,000 for each corridor for improving and developing new services. That includes three intercity passenger rail routes. In West Michigan, Amtrak increasing Grand Rapids to Chicago ridership and expanding service.

On the east side of the state, connect existing service between Detroit/Pontiac and Chicago. The corridor will also be extended to include cross-border service to the City of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.

Finally, an investment increasing rail passenger service between Port Huron and Chicago

There’s also money set aside for a route connecting Detroit to Cleveland, Ohio with a stop in Toledo.

Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.