Publish Date:
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 9:30am
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN $2 TRILLION INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD GIVE AMTRAK $80 BILLION OVER EIGHTS YEARS. This is a significant change for an enterprise that receives around $2 billion per year.
However, critics on both sides don't think it's enough.
Adie Tomer, the head of the Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative at the Brookings Institution, stated, "It’s a massive number, and we’re a massive country and it is not enough to ensure that every corridor that benefits from high-speed rail service is going to get significant funding."
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Original article was written by Jessica Wehrman of the Lima Ohio News.
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