Mr. Biden’s visit to a Philadelphia Amtrak station is a message that his agenda includes plenty of money for traditional projects like railroads, bridges and tunnels.
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press Apr 27, 2021
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In this image from video provided by the U.S. Census Bureau,
acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau Ron Jarmin speaks as a
graphic showing the U.S. population as of April 1, 2020, is
displayed during a virtual news conference Monday, April 26, 2021.
The Census Bureau is releasing the first data from its 2020
headcount.
The first batch of once-every-decade data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows a United States that is growing less quickly but still seeing its population shift to the South and the West.
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President Biden headed Friday to Philadelphia to celebrate Amtrak’s 50-year anniversary and push for better funding of rail service that has a decades-long history of red ink.
As a former senator from Delaware, Amtrak Joe famously rode the train between his home in Wilmington and Washington, D.C., every day.
So it s perhaps not surprising that tucked into Biden’s American Jobs Plan is $80 billion earmarked for Amtrak, funding the railway he has said is necessary to rebuild the Northeast Corridor and address $45 billion in backlogged repairs.
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Stu Nicholson has been trying for decades without success to get Amtrak or any other passenger rail service to come to Columbus, Ohio.
As director of All Aboard Ohio, a passenger rail advocacy group, Nicholson helped explore possibilities, like creating a new route from Chicago to Pittsburgh, with Columbus in the middle.
But for now, Columbus, a city with 878,000 people, the second-largest city in the Midwest, has no passenger rail service. It doesn’t even have a station.
That could soon change. A plan Amtrak is floating would not just restore passenger service to Columbus, but also across Ohio and spanning the U.S., from Colorado to Florida to Georgia to Wisconsin. Whether the plan might become reality has yet to be seen, but it’s sparked hope in states and cities that, like Columbus, are now passenger rail deserts.
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Caption The waiting area of Terminal Station in Macon. Until the 1960s, this is where passengers would have waited to board a train called the Nancy Hanks, running north to Atlanta or southeast to Savannah. Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB
Stu Nicholson has been trying for decades without success to get Amtrak or any other passenger rail service to come to Columbus, Ohio.
As director of All Aboard Ohio, a passenger rail advocacy group, Nicholson helped explore possibilities, like creating a new route from Chicago to Pittsburgh, with Columbus in the middle.
But for now, Columbus, a city with 878,000 people, the second-largest city in the Midwest, has no passenger rail service. It doesn’t even have a station.