Amtrak has achieved a lofty goal of doubling ridership in less than 20 years, and the railroad is using a cash infusion (About 22 billion dollars) of the Infrastructure Bill 2021 to help achieve this. the Wall Street Journal Reports indicate that improving some of Amtrak’s busiest hubs, many of which have not been upgraded in decades, is key to this plan. “Amtrak is making significant investments to modernize our stations,” said Executive Vice President Laura Mason, who is overseeing the overhaul of the company’s internal infrastructure. Projects include improving tracks, adding accessibility, and restructuring several giant stations to capitalize on retail potential. Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, New York’s Penn Station, and Chicago’s Union Station will all receive an influx of funding.
Penn Station is 112 years old in Baltimore, which WBALTV-11 The reports have not seen major revamps since 1984, and they are also being updated. “It’s a tremendous opportunity to attract new residents from D.C. and other locations to live in a neighborhood where they’re just steps away from hopping on a train to almost anywhere,” a Baltimore community leader said. magazine. The station will undergo historic preservation with the addition of two sized platforms to accommodate the new Acela trains and the construction of a new modern station building across the tracks that will be connected by a concourse. Amtrak spending is expected to rise significantly: from $15 million in funding for major stations in 2019 to $1.5 billion by 2028; Annual capital investment is expected to jump from $785 million in 2019 to more than $6.5 billion in 2025.
the magazine He notes that Amtrak was “pieced together” when private railroad companies like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company began to break up in the 1960s. The National Passenger Railroad absorbed long stretches of undeveloped track criss-crossing the country, but it also inherited enormous sites like Penn Station in Baltimore, which had development potential. But against the aggressive schedule to double passenger numbers by 2040 come delays: Philadelphia Inquirer Next-generation Acela train sets that were scheduled to enter service in 2021 may be delayed further because a newly released performance review found a number of defects in the nine-car train sets, it reported on Wednesday.
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