revitalizing the country’s crumbling infrastructure -- rail advocates see a new opportunity to transform a transportation system in the U.S. that they say is stuck in the past.Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and wife Dr. Jill Biden listen to supporters on a train campaign tour, Sept. 30, 2020, in Alliance, Ohio.
The president’s power is ultimately limited in creating new legislation that unlocks trillions of dollars, but Biden said heVice President-elect Joe Biden and President-elect Barack Obama wave to supporters from the back of a train, Jan. 17, 2009, in Edgewood, Md., en route from Philadelphia to Washington D.C. for their inauguration.released by the White House on the infrastructure proposal mentions “rail” a dozen times.
Since the late 1990s, Puentes said there has been a new focus on the environmental impact of car and plane travel as well as the role mass transit plays in connecting often lower-income individuals to jobs and opportunities in big cities with high rents. While Biden’s current infrastructure proposal specifically allocates that funds need to go towards Amtrak’s repair backlog, transportation policy experts note that this leaves some $42 billion for other rail projects -- including the possibility of investing in high-speed rail in the U.S.
“We were in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing and we presented it to the vice president and a bunch of luminaries, the federal railroad administrator and others,” Yaro recalled. “And the vice president, about 10 minutes after the presentation, pounded it on the table said ‘I have been waiting for this for 30 years, let's do it.’”
Japan’s Shinkansen and France’s Train a Grande Vitesse boast speeds of nearly 200 mph. China has said its high-speed trains can run at up to 220 mph.People walk near Yurakucho station while a Shinkansen, or high speed bullet train, arrives in Tokyo, April 10, 2021. While some may gawk at the cost, Yaro said he would argue that it’s something “we have to do if we're going to compete successfully with China.”of 18% in the first quarter of 2021, while the U.S. was still reeling from the pandemic-induced economic downturn.
Weinstein Agrawal added that massive infrastructure projects in the U.S. also face a litany of logistical hurdles and red tape -- something that was exposed further in California’s problem-plagued high-speed rail project.
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Embarrassing? Is Biden’s corrupt family Embarrassing is that he had to cheat to win and he’s still making dirty deals with other countries for personal gain. Embarrassing is the child rapist son he has that’s not in prison. This is America. And it’s embarrassing
Just follow the utopia , everything will get done
Everyday it’s more Lyle lanley monorail con artist stuff from Biden & abc. Abc is just pr for Biden & his puppet masters that really is running things. I can hear get off my lawn dementia joe saying to Obama I will do anything just get some funding for Amtrak. Obama is laughing
Worst 👴President, ever....22 thousand kids have now crossed the border in 100 days of office....Who is paying for the farse? The American People... Dementia Joe and his VP Harris should be at the Mexican borders and watch the mayhem they are BOTH causing....💲💰💲
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Easy, let all the officials responsible for the rail department visit china and learn how to build an efficient rail service.
Not more than a mockery to his administration being more of a farce than Trump. Aside from him and Kamala Harris's pathetic subtle disingenuous farce of a front promising change for white and immigrants than blacks.
Meanwhile.... WAKE UP!
Super 4% - that’s really a true drop in the bucket - nice piece of camouflage for underlying pork
mackaysuzie Fabulous idea. Freight transport costs the highway systems a fortune in ongoing repair. Long term investment in dedicated freight systems is good for business and for transport budgets.
Okayyyy, what would it matter to you people!!!
Love Rail travel and not as expensive or having to make that long ride to and from Airports. All for it as long as schedule doesn’t get bogged down with too many stops.
Nobody asked but here's a song for you to listen to Girl from Rio
it needs to be bigger to address climate change
Hello… literally no one uses Amtrak. Unless you really want to pay more than airfare and take 4X longer to get to your destination. These are nostalgic and vanity projects.
As long as Pakistan gets it's tranny research money.
Stop supporting terror groups and left Afghans to live plz stop nasty business
We need bullet trains! Like other countries!
And how much of that taxpayer money will end up in the pockets of Joe Biden's dark money supporters? Joe has to repay them somehow for helping him win!
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Crap old carriages, horrible employees, not efficient and not fast why would anybody want to go on Amtrak?
Andrew_Adonis The US should've had Maglevs years ago. Decades even. Coast2Coast
Joe where’s your mask those train fumes might have given you a virus of some kind what train wreck! He’s wears a mask cause Trump developed it under his administration took only 9 months not 5 years👍 Americans are not racist it’s a Democratic Hoax and Tim Scott is the best 👍
Joe Biden seems to get lost as he struggles to tell a story about Amtrak
Maglev train technology, please. Specifically, Transrapid maglev.
Nobody asked but here's a song for you to listen to Girl from Rio
I call BS, amtrack has made a profit 1 out of 50 years. So let’s put billions more into something people don’t want
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We need high speed rail in Megalopolis!
not bad considering the self driving future
No, because freight lines have priority on the tracks, not Amtrak.
I wonder if he remembers being called 'Amtrak Joe' in the past. Unless you media cretins just made that up
The trains in and around Chicago are in such bad shape. I really hope they get the funding they desperately need.
I love traveling by train! GO JOE!
Let the rail millionaires cove the cost not the people who don’t use it!
Jobs for who. The illegals? Sniper on a grassy knoll will stop illegals from crossing the border
I’m 66 years old and what I have seen is American ingenuity and dreams born here and just die here. Most are picked up by other nations and put into practice with great success. Some even developed and sold back to us! Time to get it all done here!
Come on guys, $10trillion in spending in the first year is no big deal. We gotta pump up those numbers, those are rookie numbers. I bet if we print and spend a quadrillion dollars, we will live in a utopia!
money for oligarchs, they will buy foreign materials and equipment, hire illegals, will pay no taxes but will pay to lobbyists and direct bribes. Americans will see no penny.
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