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With details such as funding and logistics unknown, politicians remained divided about support for an Amtrak expansion in Ohio.
“I think we have to know more. We have to know what the state’s involvement would be. We have to know what the cost to the state would be, said Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Thursday when asked about his support for the expansion. I have to reserve judgment until we get more information about it. We’re much too early to make any kind of judgment on that.”
If the expansion does go through, it would be first time Columbus would have access to a conventional passenger rail line since 1979.
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