In case you missed it, two stories ran this 
past weekend about Governor Snyder’s position on high speed rail:
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At the Pancakes & Politics event hosted by the Michigan Chronicle and CBS TV’s Michigan Matters program, our partner, CeCe Grant from Transportation for America, asked Governor Snyder about high speed rail.
According to the Detroit News:
The Transportation Department is putting $2.4 billion in returned high-speed rail funds on the fast-track for competitive bids. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today that all states can compete for $2.4 billion in funds returned by Florida to develop high-speed rail corridors across the United States.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder met with LaHood late last month at the National Governors Association winter meetings in Washington, and they discussed high speed rail funds. Snyder has expressed support for high speed rail.
In 2009, the Michigan Department of Transportation won $153.2 million in federal funding to improve a planned high-speed rail corridor between Dearborn and Kalamazoo. Michigan also won $40 million in rail stimulus funding to build a new Amtrak station in Dearborn and to renovate stations in Battle Creek and Troy.Michigan had sought more than $1.7 billion to make high speed rail a reality from Chicago to Detroit — including improvements in Indiana and Illinois — that was not approved in earlier funding rounds.