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(WASHINGTON) President Joe Biden campaigned on sparking the “second great railroad revolution” in a car-centric nation where rail infrastructure has languished for decades.
The president famously commuted daily from Wilmington, Delaware, to Washington, D.C., during his time as a senator, logging millions of miles riding the rails and earning the nickname “Amtrak Joe.”
“He s the first president in decades who s routinely ridden trains and he understands just how functional they are,” Robert Yaro, the former president of the New York s Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit civic planning organization, and a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, told ABC News.
April 15, 2021
As President Biden pushes his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, high-speed rail advocates hope he will make a nationwide bullet train a reality.
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As President Biden pushes his $2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan, transportation advocates are hopeful the nation s rail system could finally get its long-awaited moment in the sun. We ve got a president who loves trains, a secretary of transportation that s talking about the need to become the world leader, Ezra Silk, political director of the U.S. High Speed Rail Association, says of President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
President Biden, nicknamed Amtrak Joe, took the train daily from his home in Delaware to D.C. during his 36 years in the Senate. He even launched his first presidential campaign in 1987 at his hometown train station, and rode the rails hours after announcing his White House bid in 2019.
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Cara only has about 700 followers on Twitter. The 20-year-old frequently garners a handful of “Likes” on her content, which consists mostly of takes on pop culture and singing videos.
But when she tweeted a popular image of a potential US high-speed rail map in January, saying “I want her so fucking much,” her tweet quickly went viral, earning over 185,000 “Likes” and more than 50,000 retweets.
Such is the popularity among Gen Z-ers of high-speed rail.
“We look at other countries that have good examples of it, and we wonder why our country can’t do that,” Cara said. “It seems like a simple solution that we can’t find the reason as to why we’re not doing it.”
High-speed rail through CT could finally happen
Tom Condon, By Tom CondonThe CT MirrorThe CT Mirror
Feb. 8, 2021
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North Atlantic Rail, a privately planned high-speed rail project, would transform New England transportation. The $100 billion-plus project is vying for federal infrastructure dollars and was planned at the University of Pennsylvania with Connecticut officials.North Atlantic RailShow MoreShow Less
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Caltrain Station at King Street and 4th Street on July 9 in San Francisco, Calif. California has rolled out its vision for high-speed trains between San Jose and San Francisco, plotting a 30 or so minute ride on what would be one of the busiest stretches of the state’s proposed 520-mile rail system. The California High Speed Rail Authority is calling for 220-mph trains, coming from the Central Valley, to merge onto the Caltrain commuter line for a 49-mile jaunt up the Peninsula.Santiago Mejia / The San Francisco ChronicleShow MoreShow Less