No where in the US Constitution gives any part of government the power to take from the many to give a few a subsidized ride on a train. Defund Amtrak and privatize. If you want first-rate then you can’t have lazy ass government employees running it. Plus Amtrak should be defunded to spite Joe Biden and all the leftists that use it.
How much is that for each vote?
California was supposed to have high speed rail. After billions of government dollars there is no rail line.
A private company, Brightline, operates high speed rail in Florida.
if it the “busiest rail line” why would it need a $16 billion Governments subsidy?
Why are user fees not paying the tab?
Amtrak was created because competition from interstate highways and the airlines had driven down revenues, pushing passenger losses yet higher. Penn Central had the biggest deficit of all. As Jervis Langdon, a trustee of Penn Central, recalled, “Hauling passengers was killing railroads in the Northeast.” Therefore, Judge John Fullam, who was presiding over its bankruptcy, ordered the railroad to shut down its passenger trains.
Willie Green would approve.
The NE Rail corridor is 457 miles long
That is about $35,000,000 per mile!
Would that include paying someone to clean the restrooms onboard on Fridays?
This is part of the 2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. He’s got a way to go before he spends it all. Everything he’s doing is because congress voted for it.
Agree Biden going to handing out a lot of fish stories for the election but he’s not going to be in it.
He’s going to have a lot of trial time with the family they can kiss off the profits they made from China an others.
Same with welfare and a ton of other federal vote buying programs.
For his compadres that he used to BS with?
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OMG!! SO IN OUR FACE!
What will be required is a total change in how the service is provided. Someone needs to look at how other countries provide decent rail passenger service and how that differs from what is done in the USA.
So many believe in the “field of dreams” approach to mass transportation......if you build it they will come. It doesn't work, it just throws more money into an ever expanding pit with no good results.
At the moment the great dream is that building bullet trains or improving the rail lines so that trains can go much faster will attract more paying passengers. You can't go faster if you don't have controlled intersections of roads and rails and if you don't have independent passenger only high speed right of way.
This is going to be a waste of money that I hope fails to pass the House of Representatives. Counting down the days until the government spending authority shuts down.
The only thing that Americans will get out of that $16 billion in Amtrak improvements is tampon dispensers in the men’s bathrooms, all the rest of the money will be stolen by our garbage establishment.
The last I checked, all funding $$ Bills (no pun) originate in the House. Biden can propose anything he wants but he's not a king with unlimited power.
When the Executive branch creates laws using executive orders, it's unconstitutional. When courts (activist judges) make laws via their rulings, it's unconstitutional.
We need our government to get back to obeying the constitution. The limits the constitution places on each branch of government was for good reason. The Founders would rebuke the government we have today.
I don’t know of anyone who takes the Lord’s name in vain more than Biden.
Allow Brightline to run the service in the Northeast Corridor.
So where does he get the money? Did he rob a bank? Nope. He just takes it from your labor or prints it making yours worth less and less and less and less. $35,00,000 per mile for improvements? Is that enough? If it is such a busy corridor why can’t it pay for it’s own improvements? If it were private it would.