220 Cities Losing All Passenger Train Service per Trump Elimination of all Federal Funding for Amtra
SOURCE: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS (NARP) APR 4, 2017
http://www.masstransitmag.com/press_release/12322126/220-cities-losing-all-passenger-train-service-per-trump-elimination-of-all-federal-funding-for-amtraks-national-network-trains
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The National Association of Rail Passengers denounced the budget outline released by the Trump Administration, which slashes investment in transportation infrastructure. These cuts to Amtrak, transit, and commuter rail programs, and even air service to rural towns, would not only cost construction and manufacturing jobs, but place a disproportionate amount of pain on rural and working class communities.
“It’s ironic that President Trump’s first budget proposal undermines the very communities whose economic hardship and sense of isolation from the rest of the country helped propel him into office,” said NARP President Jim Mathews. “These working class communities — many of them located in the Midwest and the South — were tired of being treated like ‘flyover country.’ But by proposing the elimination of Amtrak’s long distance trains, the Trump Administration does them one worse, cutting a vital service that connects these small town economies to the rest of the U.S. These hard working, small town Americans don’t have airports or Uber to turn to; they depend on these trains.”
"What’s more, these proposed cuts come as President Trump continues to promise that our tax dollars will be invested in rebuilding America's infrastructure,” continued Mathews. “Instead, we have seen an all-out assault on any project — public and private — that would advance passenger rail. These cuts and delays are costing the U.S. thousands of good-paying construction and manufacturing jobs in America's heartland at this very moment."
Mathews was referring to the decision by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to indefinitely suspend a grant that would allow California to proceed with a commuter rail electrification project. Caltrain, the agency overseeing the project, estimates the project would create 9,600 total direct and indirect jobs. The delay also threatens the construction of a new railcar assembly plant planned for Salt Lake City, which would generate sustainable, family-wage jobs for 550 employees.
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...Donnie would be more inclined to preserve the routes-?
Hey talk about a-ramblin'
He's the fastest on the line
It's that Orange Turd Blossom Special
Rollin' down the D.C. line!
was, compared to that of other countries. In his twisted, corporate minded, way of thinking, perhaps he doesn't want to "throw good money away, after bad". 
What the Hell? This move is a spike to America's Heart.
Is this another DESTROY AMERICA plan that the russians have sold to their lie-encrusted republican wanker brigade?
now they want to shut down all support of rail unless it's hauling millions of tons of toxic shit.
