"The Biden-Harris Administration is announcing $8.2 billion in new funding for 10 major #PassengerRail projects across the country, including the first world-class #HighSpeedRail projects in our country’s history."
"The next few years could bring about a rail revolution, says Amtrak's Andy Byford, provided Americans can get over their car obsession and the feds allocate enough money for the job."
Of HSR-ready and dedicated straight rails, lighter train cars, and "buckets of funding".
"The US spends trillions on highways, and pours billions into airports, so why shouldn't we do the same with rail?"
A rail revolution? Oh, Amtrak. Please. A rail revolution would mean modern, affordable, ubiquitous, high-speed rail travel EVERYWHERE in the United States. All over. Everywhere. With interconnections to regional and local high-speed modern rail.
That's not happening because Americans have been lulled into thinking that would not be in their interests, when in fact it's just not in the interests of the industries for which high-speed rail would compete and pose a profit threat.
Oh, I understand, but it's not AM-trak unless they can replicate the Northeast Corridor in all the other corridors. Otherwise they might as well call it NEtrak.
@CelloMomOnCars That map, showing tons of existing Amtrak lines which are mostly ancient freight lines that Amtrak uses and passengers tolerate (lookin' at you, Southwest Chief) is the equivalent of Netflix stuffing their categories with straight-to-video filler and 1-star stinker movies that bombed in the theatre. Of course there's going to be money for an LA-Vegas run because Vegas. But the idea that the old Amtrak lines would be improved? Without hundreds of billions to pay for it? ...
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