Biden announces new funding for Amtrak Northeast Corridor
Source: Associated Press via Roanoke Times
Posted: Friday, August 26, 2016 4:52 am | Updated: 9:45 am, Fri Aug 26, 2016.
Associated Press |
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) Federal officials are announcing new funding for Amtrak's passenger rail system and stressing the need for continued investment in America's transportation infrastructure.
Vice President Joe Biden scheduled a stop Friday at the train station in Wilmington, Delaware, which bears his name, to announce new funding to improve infrastructure and efficiency along Amtrak's busy Northeast Corridor.
Amtrak reported ridership of 11.7 million along the Northeast Corridor in fiscal 2015, a record high.
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Last week, the Federal Railroad Administration awarded $25 million for 11 projects, including $2.6 million for the Northeast Corridor, to help implement Positive Train Control, an advanced technology aimed at preventing train collisions and derailments.
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Biden announces new funding for Amtrak Northeast Corridor
Updated Aug. 26, 2016 4:54 a.m. ET
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)I was told by a guy who works for Amtrak that those tracks are a disaster waiting to happen.
Every time I take a train into NYC Penn Station I think about that.
DorothyG
(95 posts)I've ridden it both ways multiple times from Boston to DC and DC to Boston. just curious.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)The tracks and tunnel from Newark, NJ was the section mentioned to me.
Though I would imagine that the entire Manhattan sector has the same problems.
I do recall that the guy I spoke with stated that the frogs or common crossing points were an especially big problem and needed to be replaced.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)😬
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)Love my train.
madokie
(51,076 posts)that he would still be riding the rails to and from home each day. What a guy.
I don't agree or haven't always agreed with Joe but I have something like 98% of the time. I've heard so many people around here say that he should be the one running for the Presidency. People who I'd never had thought would be thinking that too.
He's a, and always have been, a Good Guy.
CTyankee
(63,769 posts)Another epic rant...
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)I don't understand why the end of the line is Brunswick. If they brought the train up north another 20 mi they'd have a whole lot more customers. Lewiston/Auburn is the second most populated area in the state after the Portland area. Politicians in this area have been trying to get this for years now.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,891 posts)I have the Winter/Spring 2013 timetable at my desk, effective January 14, 2013. I think Amtrak has stopped issuing paper timetables.
Trains 685 (weekdays) and 695 (weekends) leave Boston at 5:00 or 5:40 p.m. and arrive at Brunswick at 8:20 or 9:00 p.m. They spend an entire ten minutes there and almost immediately head off to Portland as trains 676 or 678, where the equipment is kept overnight.
At 6:00 a.m. the following morning, train 679 leaves Portland for Brunswick, where it becomes either 682 (weekdays) or 692 (weekends), leaving Brunswick for Boston at 7:05 a.m. The only other through train from Brunswick to Boston is 688 (weekdays) and 698 (weekends), which leaves Brunswick at 5:55 p.m.
To go as far as Lewiston/Auburn, 679 would have to leave Portland an hour earlier. This might be too early for anyone riding from Portland to Brunswick.
There are additional trains that run only between Portland and Boston.
Does Amtrak operate (or sponsor) bus service between Lewiston/Auburn and Brunswick?
I acknowledge that my schedule is probably out of date.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)student traffic.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)same deal, except even more people live in the area.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)I rode on it this summer from Freeport to Boston and back. Pretty much everyone was going to Boston.
No, they don't have an bus service that I know of. It wasn't an option when I was looking online. You have to drive yourself. When I went this summer I actually drove to Freeport because it is faster to drive to there from Lewiston since it is mostly country driving. Also, tons of free parking over in Freeport. It wasn't too bad and I'd ride on it again, but there are a lot more people that would ride on it if it came all the way up to Lewiston (students, residents that don't own cars).