'Amtrak Joe' Biden visits Delaware to promote $16 billion for passenger rail projects

SPC Carl Davis Excellent News!

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"President Joe Biden, arguably the nation's biggest Amtrak fan, visited a train maintenance shop in his home state of Delaware on Monday to showcase more than $16 billion in federal investments for rail travel along the busy Northeast Corridor, saying of long-delayed improvements, “we're finally getting it done.”

The president highlighted spending to modernize 25 passenger train projects between Boston and Washington at an event in Bear, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from Biden’s home in Wilmington.

“Why, in the United States of America, do we not have the best rail system in the world?” Biden asked. Noting that better train service in some of America's busiest locales would help ease car traffic and potentially reduce fossil fuel use, he added, “There's so much more we can do to better the environment and quality of life.”
Amtrak runs about 800,000 trips daily on its Northeast Corridor, the White House says, which makes it the nation’s busiest rail corridor. Monday's event combined two things close to Biden’s heart: Amtrak and Delaware.

“It’s good to be home,” he declared. “There’s no better place to make this announcement than in my home state.”"...

Another $16B into a poorly run rail system. It exists, and that's about the only positive thing that can be said about Amtrack. It relies on someone else's track. It relies on someone else's controllers. Neither of which get paid what it costs in lack of productive freight to make a hole for a commuter line. They have lost money EVERY SINGLE YEAR in it's existence, but the Democrat way is to throw more money at a lost cause.
Privatize Amtrack now.