Moline station

Moline, IL
Owned by City of Moline
Line(s) Iowa Interstate Railroad
Platforms 1
Tracks 1
Construction
Parking Yes
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
History
Opening TBA
Services
  Future Services  
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
TerminusQuad Cities
Geneseo
toward Chicago

Moline station is a proposed train station in Moline, Illinois, for the Quad Cities train. Construction has begun, and the station is expected to be completed with rail service by 2018.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3] However, in early 2015, Governor Bruce Rauner put all major spending projects under review, including the Chicago-Quad Cities Amtrak line, on hold.[4] Despite this, construction on the station started in 2015, and continued throughout the period the line's future was in question.[5][6] 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.[7] On February 24, 2017, it was announced that the station will be complete in August, with passenger rail service to commence soon thereafter.[8]

References

  1. ↑ User, Super. "The Q". www.renewmoline.com. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
  2. ↑ "Rock Island's Rockets". Amtrak in the Heartland. 14 May 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Moline Multimodal Station TIGER II Grant". Kaskaskia Engineering Group. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  4. ↑ Simmons, Shane (2015-01-25). "Gov. Rauner's spending freeze results in 'review' of Quad City Amtrak project". WQAD-TV. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  5. ↑ "Construction begins on Moline train station". WQAD.com. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  6. ↑ DeWitt, Jennifer. "Construction advances on Moline train station". The Quad-City Times. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  7. ↑ Timmons, Eric (2016-06-21). "Illinois commits to Chicago-Moline passenger rail". The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  8. ↑ awatt@qconline.com, Anthony Watt,. "Officials expect The Q to be ready in May". Dispatch-Argus-QCOnline. Retrieved 6 March 2017.


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