MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — Amtrak service will roll into Madison earlier than expected.
A senior director with Amtrak now says the plan is to bring passenger rail service to the Capitol City by 2030, at least a couple years earlier than planned. Amtrak plans on connecting Madison to Milwaukee and Chicago and eventually the Twin Cities. The question now, where to build the train station? Madison hasn’t had regularly scheduled passenger rail service since 1971.
Former Governor Jim Doyle brokered a deal to receive over 800 million in federal money for the service in Madison, but that project was scrapped when Scott Walker was elected governor.