Amtrak's future

posted Apr 24, 2017 at 12:10 PM

Over at NYT, a look at the decaying rail infrastructure in the Northeast and Amtrak's perpetual funding crunch: "Today, Amtrak finds itself at a crossroad: Is the 46-year-old national railroad at the cusp of a new era of investment as it pushes to build a train tunnel between New York and New Jersey -- one of the country's largest infrastructure proposals -- or will service deteriorate to levels that could damage the economy in the corridor between Washington and Boston?" [NYT]

Earlier: The plan for a new NYC train station. (For real this time. Probably.)

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High speed rail hangs in the balance, too. And with that, a replacement Livingston Avenue Bridge. Dark days could be ahead for rail and bike ped travel...

... said daleyplanit on Apr 24, 2017 at 2:53 PM | link

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