Amtrak’s CEO Bill Flynn is optimistic about the prospects of the #AmericanJobsPlan helping realize intercity passenger rail service to 160 new communities and building passenger rail at large in the country.
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For context, Amtrak has put out a map highlighting where enhancements would be focused and new routes. is a priority for corridor enhancements.
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Highlights:
- Up to 160 more communities
- Multiple daily trips in more states
- Up to 60+ potential new routes
- Up to 20+ existing routes with more trips
- 20 million more passengers than the 32 million served in 2019
The full fact sheet here: media.amtrak.com/wp-content/upl
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Washington's state rail plan sets fairly abysmal goals for intercity passenger rail service levels. On the high end, Portland-Seattle would only have 13 daily roundtrips while Seattle-Vancouver (four daily) and Portland-Eugene (six daily) lag.
Background: theurbanist.org/2020/01/10/was
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With high-speed rail, the state has looked at higher frequencies across the whole Cascadia HSR corridor at around 21 daily roundtrips. The state rail plan isn’t very serious and continues long-standing feet dragging by WSDOT. wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/
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When do we get back to this? #waleg
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Replying to @nickhasthoughts
Old railroad map just dropped. 1940.
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