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Yesterday, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) announced that $2.5 million has passed a “key benchmark” in Congress and is being allocated to build an intermodal station in Rochester to prepare the city for high-speed rail.

“In order to make high-speed rail accessible to tourists and business commuters, we must not let their journey stop at the train station. Intermodal stations are our community’s gateway to public transportation services — both inter-city and intra-city — and they are the key to linking rail to economic development,” Slaughter said in a prepared statement.

Rochester’s current Amtrak station, built in 1978, was intended to be a temporary facility. It lacks Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility and is not built to support high-speed rail, Slaughter said.

The $2.5 million will be allocated to the city of Rochester to begin planning and designing the new station, which will house Amtrak trains, and Greyhoud and Trailways buses, and provide connectivity to city buses, taxis and other transportation modes.