The state of Ohio plans on using some of the revenues generated from a newly renegotiated contract for advertising on blue highway exit signs to pay for some of the $10 million needed to operate passenger rail service.
The highway exit signs are used to advertise restaurants, hotels and gas stations off of highway exits and the revenues could be used, in part, to link Ohio's major cities like Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Dayton where roughly 6 million people live.
At first the service would be 79 mph trains on existing freight tracks, but could be increased to 110 mph service equal to that on Acela trains running between East Coast cities.
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