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Looking beyond the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill, President Joe Biden and lawmakers are laying the groundwork for another of his top legislative priorities a long-sought boost to the nation’s roads, bridges and other infrastructure that could meet GOP resistance to a hefty price tag.
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WASHINGTON The $80 billion that President Joe Biden proposes to give Amtrak over eight years in his $2 trillion infrastructure proposal would be a windfall for an enterprise that typically receives $2 billion from the federal government per year.
Amtrak 2035 Map: Hopes and Challenges
Amtrak 2035 Map: Hopes and Challenges Written by David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor
As Amtrak marks its 50th anniversary, many are reflecting on the railroad’s past half-century and wondering how it will do in the next.
“America’s Railroad” recently released a map showing the services it would like to offer by 2035; 14 years from now. As planning frontiers go, that is not a very long time. For us seniors, who remember the entire Amtrak era, it feels like an eternity; far beyond our lifetimes.
Amtrak system in 2021.
Everybody seems to be talking about the plan. One advocate called it “propaganda.” while
Amtrak Playing Hardball With CSX, NS on Gulf Coast Service (Updated)
Amtrak Playing Hardball With CSX, NS on Gulf Coast Service (Updated) Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
More than 300 people rode Amtrak’s Gulf Coast Inspection Train (pictured) from New Orleans to Jacksonville, Fla., in February 2016, as part of an ongoing effort to restore passenger rail service along the Gulf Coast, which was disrupted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and never resumed. (Marc Glucksman, Amtrak)
In a move that appears to be a pre-emptive strike, Amtrak has asked the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to intervene on its behalf if CSX and Norfolk Southern don’t cooperate on hosting proposed new service between New Orleans and Mobile.
‘Amtrak Joe’ and ‘Mayor Pete’: New administration vows Gulf Coast visit
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
An Amtrak inspection train, filled with government and rail transportation officials and media, arrives in Mobile, Ala., on Thursday Feb. 18, 2016. The trip marked the first time in more than 10 years a passenger train has left New Orleans headed east to Florida. (file photo)
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President Joe Biden took thousands of train trips between his Delaware home and Washington, D.C., when he was in the Senate, earning him the title “Amtrak Joe.”
Pete Buttigieg, the incoming U.S. transportation secretary, who earned the nickname “Mayor Pete” during last year’s presidential contest, advocated for improved passenger rail service as mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
program, and then you look at how passenger rail has been starved for investment for three decades, there shouldn t be any wonder why it takes time to install these kind of safety measures. you re a man who would know sir. john robert smith, former amtrak board chairman chairman of transportation for america, thank you so much sir. i appreciate your time today. thank you, brooke. thank you. next it is becoming a key question here in this train derailment with safety technology as we were just talking about. would that have made a difference? obviously he said positive train control could have prevented this. we want to take you inside a simulator to show you how this works.