By Darlene Superville Associated Press
President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark Amtrak’s 50th anniversary at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia on Friday.
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‘I wouldn’t have missed this for the world,’ President Joe Biden said Friday of an event to mark Amtrak’s 50th anniversary.
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President Joe Biden arrives with his granddaughters Finnegan Biden, right, and Maisy Biden, during an event to mark Amtrak’s 50th anniversary at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.
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PHILADELPHIA President Joe Biden, once a regular Amtrak rider, helped the nation’s passenger rail system celebrate 50 years of service Friday.
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The Amtrak party will be Biden s latest stop in a post-speech tour to sell the infrastructure, jobs and families plans. He campaigned in Atlanta on Thursday and plans a stop in Yorktown, Virginia, on Monday.
The infrastructure proposal would devote $621 billion to improving roads, bridges, public transit and other transportation infrastructure. Of that, $80 billion would go toward tackling Amtrak’s repair backlog, improving service along the Northeast Corridor and expanding service across the U.S. Biden has said Amtrak s Northeast Corridor is a critical part of the U.S. economy.
Amtrak said after Biden announced the plan that the corporation would upgrade and expand service, including by adding 30 new routes and adding trains on 20 existing routes across the U.S. by 2035. New service would begin in portions of northeast Pennsylvania including Scranton, where Biden was born, as well as Nashville, Tennessee; Columbus, Ohio; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Houston; Dallas; and Austin, Texas, if
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