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Old Posted Jun 29, 2012, 8:40 PM
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And the fight continues in Cincinnati...

U.S. House bars federal money for streetcar
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U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot’s trying to keep future federal transportation funding away from being spent on Cincinnati’s streetcar.

The House on Wednesday night approved an amendment Chabot attached to the annual transportation spending bill. The Westwood Republican said the country “cannot continue to spend money it doesn’t have.”

“My amendment is about priorities,” he said in a statement. “This project is far from a necessity while projects of high priority like the Brent Spence Bridge and I-71 (Martin Luther King) interchange are left on hold.”

Chabot has spoken out against the project before, but this was the first time anyone had pushed the topic to a congressional vote. Gov. John Kasich took back $52 million in state streetcar money last year.
Source: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...sey=nav%7Chead
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