2y ago

President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors

www.whitehouse.gov

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country | The White House

$8.2 Billion from the President’s Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America
President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda – a key pillar of Bidenomics – is delivering world class-infrastructure across the country, expanding access to economic opportunity, and creating good-paying jobs. By delivering $66 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – the largest investment in passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak 50 years ago – President Biden is delivering on his vision to rebuild America and win the global competition for the 21st century.

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2y ago

White House: $8.2B for 10 major rail projects including US' first high-speed rail

www.whitehouse.gov /briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/08/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-billions-to-deliver-world-class-high-speed-rail-and-launch-new-passenger-rail-corridors-across-the-country/

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Another great move by the Biden administration! I wonder if it will be acknowledged by his critics?
- This critic is pretty stoked at the stuff he's been doing lately. I really hope he ganks a drug patent from some Shkreli-looking asshole, though.
  Edit: And now we’re back to being shitty and supporting genocide. Goddammit
- Sounds great on paper but there's tons that can go wrong. Don't forget all those billions that got paid or for national Internet infrastructure that the cable companies just pocketed.
  I'll save my praise for when the trains start running.
  
  Yeah, we should really nationalize that infrastructure.
  
  I'll save my praise for when the trains start running.
  That won't be until well after 2024.
Key selected projects include: building a new high-speed rail system between California and Nevada, which will serve more than 11 million passengers annually; creating a high-speed rail line through California’s Central Valley to ultimately link Los Angeles and San Francisco, supporting travel with speeds up to 220 mph; delivering significant upgrades to frequently-traveled rail corridors in Virginia, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia; and upgrading and expanding capacity at Chicago Union Station in Illinois, one of the nation’s busiest rail hubs.
Sweet.
- CityNerd did a pretty good theoretical on the LA/LV line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Noo855zyA
  The unfortunate reality is that LA is a city with such insanely bad urban design that it's unlikely the corridor is going to be of huge benefit to someone making the trip, at least in the near term. Their city transportation options need wholesale revision to give intercity transportation a fighting chance; as it is now, you'll just be in gridlock congestion or hours of awful public transportation to get to the departure station, for most people.
  LA, like so many postwar-design-pattern cities, have sabotaged themselves terribly. Which to me, weirdly, is all the more reason to just barge on ahead with projects like this. They cannot afford to NOT start fixing their brutally inefficient, totally car-oriented infrastructure. The existing system doesn't work. Can't work. Only de-emphasizing car trips can work.
For anyone, like me, who was annoyed at that tiny, low-def map, the full report can be found here: https://railroads.dot.gov/corridor-ID-program
If you're specifically after that report, go to the selections under "News"
Yesssssss!

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