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LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) Amtrak has said it is willing to participate in a partnership to provide and operate passenger railroad service along the Front Range between Pueblo, Colorado, and Cheyenne as it works to expand operations.
The Daily Times-Call reported Monday that Amtrak President Stephen Gardner said the 215-mile corridor is ready for passenger rail service and that a partnership could make the route a reality.
Gardner said during a Monday news conference that it is unclear how much the service would cost and what each partner would contribute.
Amtrak said the potential service could be part of the corporation s vision to expand passenger services across the country.
Amtrak’s Flynn to Congress: Here’s What We Need Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
In a Jan. 22 letter, Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn outlined five top priorities for the new Congress to address in 2021.
Amtrak CEO William J. Flynn has provided the 117th Congress with the railroad’s five top priorities to ensure its recovery from the pandemic and expand service this year. In a Jan. 22 letter (download below), Flynn asked legislators to address:
1. Sufficient funding: “Amtrak requires additional COVID relief funding to sustain and restore operations and recall employees through the remainder of FY21 and into FY22 and beyond,” Flynn wrote. (Amtrak is slated to receive $1 billion under the $2.3 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which was signed into law last month.) “In the coming weeks, we are requesting $1.541 billion in FY21 and will outline our FY22 needs in our annual Legislative and Grant Request.
NJ Transit meets deadline for speed control system, averting federal threat to stop the trains
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Posted Dec 18, 2020
A Trenton-bound NJ Transit train stops at Metropark. The railroad met a Dec. 31, 2020, federal deadline to install automated speed control throughout its system.
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New Jersey Transit, which just last month was in danger of missing a federal mandate to install automatic speed control on its trains and tracks by the end of the year, announced Friday it had met the deadline.
The $337 million system is designed to prevent train crashes by automatically stopping a train when the operator goes too fast or misses track signals.