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Amtrak has unveiled a plan to further connect the US by rail but it doesn t include high-speed rail.
New routes will be added and current routes will be upgraded as Amtrak aims to repair its network.
Private companies and states have taken up the costly task of building high-speed rail on their own.
Americans are all-aboard for high-speed rail but Amtrak s new rail plan is putting the brakes on bullet train dreams.
Amtrak is getting ready to spend $80 billion of the federal government s money as part of President Joe Biden s planned $4 trillion infrastructure bills. The Amtrak Connects US plan calls for greater rail connectivity across the US with the addition of new routes and improvement of old ones in a major step forward for America s rail system.
Gulf Coast Service? Not So Fast, Say CSX, NS
Gulf Coast Service? Not So Fast, Say CSX, NS Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
In late February, Amtrak confirmed its intention to begin service between New Orleans and Mobile in 2022. But a stakeholder agreement had not yet been reached.
“Unripe.” That is what CSX and Norfolk Southern (NS) have called Amtrak’s application with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) asking for an order requiring the freight railroads to permit access for twice daily round-trip passenger service between New Orleans and Mobile, starting on or about Jan. 1, 2022.
In their April 5 STB filing, CSX and NS called for the dismissal of Amtrak’s application for these reasons:
Amtrak has proposed a plan for new and enhanced rail connections across the United States.
When President Biden unveiled his major new infrastructure plan last week, the proposal included much more than fixing crumbling bridges. And for those who wish America had a more robust passenger train network, it gave them something new: hope.
Biden s $2 trillion infrastructure package has two provisions involving passenger rail: $85 billion to modernize public transit (commuter rail, buses, stations, etc.) and $80 billion to improve and expand the nation s passenger and freight rail network. You and your family could travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas onboard a high-speed train, Biden said at the plan s unveiling.
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
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