Part of the infrastructure bill of 2022 was both studies for increased service and increased service in a variety of places. The goal was to increment next phases of building a better and more complete network.
I see your point about OK but there were several related baby steps toward extending the NEC and toward building Chicago as the hub of a useful Midwest train network. Passenger rail has never gotten sufficient funding so progress is in baby steps, but the best way to get support for more service is to improve enough to start being useful. There were several reputed increasing to half a dozen trains, which is starting to be useful
Yeah it’s quite painful- we need significant investments in intercity rail, yet the best we can do with the largest infrastructure bill ever is sprinkle around little baby steps in many places …… and too much of that was broken contracts, not happening
Yes there are some huge projects too, mostly on NEC, and desperately needed. But even there, we’re talking about barely scratching a century of deferred maintenance resulting in only incremental improvements.
There’s got to be a better and cheaper way of doing this.
Part of the infrastructure bill of 2022 was both studies for increased service and increased service in a variety of places. The goal was to increment next phases of building a better and more complete network.
I see your point about OK but there were several related baby steps toward extending the NEC and toward building Chicago as the hub of a useful Midwest train network. Passenger rail has never gotten sufficient funding so progress is in baby steps, but the best way to get support for more service is to improve enough to start being useful. There were several reputed increasing to half a dozen trains, which is starting to be useful
Spending for a Midwest hub is a waste when they can’t even make the DC to bostoin route good.
Yeah it’s quite painful- we need significant investments in intercity rail, yet the best we can do with the largest infrastructure bill ever is sprinkle around little baby steps in many places …… and too much of that was broken contracts, not happening
Yes there are some huge projects too, mostly on NEC, and desperately needed. But even there, we’re talking about barely scratching a century of deferred maintenance resulting in only incremental improvements.
There’s got to be a better and cheaper way of doing this.