Moline (Amtrak station)
Moline | ||||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | City of Moline | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Iowa Interstate Railroad | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opening | Late 2017 (planned) | |||||||||||||||
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The Moline Amtrak station is a proposed train station in Moline, Illinois, for the Quad Cities train. The start date has yet to be announced.
History
Until 1979, the Rock Island Railroad's Quad Cities Rocket, served the Quad Cities. However, due to poor on-time performance and deteriorating track conditions, ridership declined substantially, causing the state of Illinois to pull the subsidy keeping the train running, leaving the Quad Cities without passenger rail service.[1]
In 2008, efforts to restore passenger rail service to the Quad Cities were set in motion. In 2010, the City of Moline got a federal TIGER grant for construction of the station.[2] However, in early 2015, Governor Bruce Rauner put all major spending projects under review, including the Chicago-Quad Cities Amtrak line, on hold.[3] Despite this, construction on the station started in 2015, and continued throughout the period the line's future was in question.[4][5] By June 2016, under threat of losing the federal funding for the line, the state released the matching funds needed to move the project forward.[6] On February 24, 2017, it was announced that the station will be complete in August, with passenger rail service to commence soon thereafter.[7]
References
- ↑ "Rock Island’s Rockets". Amtrak in the Heartland. 14 May 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ↑ "Moline Multimodal Station TIGER II Grant". Kaskaskia Engineering Group. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ↑ Simmons, Shane (2015-01-25). "Gov. Rauner’s spending freeze results in ‘review’ of Quad City Amtrak project". WQAD-TV. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
- ↑ "Construction begins on Moline train station". WQAD.com. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ↑ DeWitt, Jennifer. "Construction advances on Moline train station". The Quad-City Times. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ↑ Timmons, Eric (2016-06-21). "Illinois commits to Chicago-Moline passenger rail". The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
- ↑ awatt@qconline.com, Anthony Watt,. "Officials expect The Q to be ready in May". Dispatch-Argus-QCOnline. Retrieved 6 March 2017.