Amtrak plans to use the $66B in funding it receives from the newly passed federal infrastructure bill to advance rail projects along the Northeast Corridor and possibly expand service to 160 communities across the country.
night, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden who is expected to quickly sign the measure into law.will ramp up government spending on roads, bridges and airports, as well as public transit, water systems and broadband. Amtrak will receive $66 billion as part of the package.
Those initiatives include the Hudson Tunnel Project, which would rehabilitate the existing tunnel under the Hudson River that carries Amtrak and New Jersey Transit passenger trains between New Jersey and New York, and the Connecticut River Bridge Replacement Project, which would replace the existing 107-year-old bridge between different parts of the state.
“This is a down payment on literally decades of underinvestment,” the association's president, Jim Mathews, said."We are catching up on stuff we should have been paying for.” Amtrak officials said there will be new passenger equipment for state-supported and long-distance trains, and a new corridor development program to identify new routes across the nation.
The funding for grant programs and corridor development is meaningful and nothing like this has been seen in several years, said Dominic Spaethling, chair of the passenger rail committee for the Transportation Research Board and vice-president of design firm HNTB Corp.
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