If Florida doesn’t want $2.5 billion for high speed rail development, Missouri does. Gov. Nixon says Missouri is applying for $1 billion of the $2.5 billion Florida has rejected to make the St. Louis to Kansas City service a high-speed run. 

Some of the money would go to upgrade the present line, but 60 percent of it would be used to plan, design, and buy land for a separate line dedicated to high-speed rail.