What We Promote

What is High-Speed Rail?

The types of trains we actively promote:
- Commuter
- Intercity

The types of trains
we support:
- Street cars/light rail
- Rapid transit

A Stronger Network
- The Midwest Network
- National Interconnected Network
- Airport Connections
- Intercity bus and local transit connections

Federal policies

Our core initiatives
- Illinois Fast Track Initiative
- Chicago Union Station
- O'Hare Terminal 7
- CREATE - The Chicago Rail Development Plan
- Platform Standards

How
- Technical
- Political

Success Stories
- Historical
- North America
- Worldwide

What We Promote: Airport Connections:
General Mitchell International Airport - Milwaukee

The Chicago-Milwaukee Corridor forms the western boundary of Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport. Fourteen Amtrak trains currently pass the airport daily.

There are nearly 30 flights a day between Mitchell and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, with gate-to-gate travel times of 40 to 50 minutes. High-speed shuttle trains could easily travel the 80 miles between these two airports in the same amount of time.

Amtrak and the State of Wisconsin have have identified the funding needed to construct a rail station adjacent to the airport access freeway. The airport's parking lot shuttle buses would link the rail station with the air terminal.