ELPC Releases Midwest High-Speed Rail Supply Chain Report
Friday, February 8, 2013
A new report released today by the Environmental Law & Policy Center shows investment in the next generation of rail would increase rail manufacturing and jobs throughout the industrial Midwest.
“Manufacturers across the heartland stand ready to build a 21st century transportation system for America. By investing in high-speed rail, we can revitalize manufacturing, increase mobility, create jobs and reduce pollution.”
The study profiles manufacturers and supply chain companies in the Midwest that are ready to begin making parts and putting people to work improving existing rail systems in the US. This includes 122 in Ohio, 99 in Indiana, 49 in Michigan, 84 in Illinois, 73 in Wisconsin, 26 in Minnesota and 7 in Iowa.
The complete report is online at and can be accessed here.
Manufacturers in the Midwest and beyond are ready and waiting to produce the components and materials needed to usher in America’s next generation of rail, and long-term federal and state government investment is the catalyst for a manufacturing renaissance in the industrial Midwest.
In addition to jobs and economic benefits for the region, a modernized Chicago-hubbed Midwest Network would provide passengers with fast affordable rail service to cities across the Midwest. Travel times between major cities will fall from 30 to 50 percent.
Tags: businesses, economic development; high-speed rail jobs, High-Speed Rail, Supply Chain, supply chain report
Good thing that all those firms have on their side the precedent of procurement for urban public transit and the military, to give two examples of governmental patronage schemes. Were it not so we would be tempted to suspect that Midwest high-speed rail is an example of tax profiteering through the recycling of Fascism.
Feel free now to holler for the government’s trains to run on time.