The new federal funding will advance major bridge and tunnel work designed to improve the speed and reliability of passenger trains.
An Acela train makes its way out of the Wilson Street tunnel in Baltimore, part of the Civil War-era tunnel system that Amtrak is proposing to upgrade. announced $16 billion in new funding Monday for Amtrak and other agencies to revamp rail bridges, tunnels and stations on the busy Washington-to-Boston passenger corridor, part of an overhaul of service funded through the two-year-old infrastructure law.
“Under President Biden, we are finally delivering the generational investments in passenger rail that Americans have wanted for years, including modernizing the busiest rail corridor in the country,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement. “For 30 years, Americans, travelers, businesses, workers have been hoping for this day,” Hochul said. “But years of inaction, excuses, delays and the infighting are finally over. We’re now heralding in a new era of working not against each other but working together to accomplish great things.”
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