St. Louis to Chicago is a very, very flat 260 miles. To buy an Amtrak ticket it’s $36-43 and takes 5h.
I’m traveling to Italy soon and a ticket from Genoa to Rome is €35, about the same distance between a sea front and a mountain range, and takes a whole hour less travel time.
Amtrak is in desperate need of public funding and freight rail needs to be prosecuted for blatantly ignoring laws that give passenger trains the right of way on rails.
The high speed rail the states keep rejecting the money the fed allocates to the rail projects? Wisconsin rejected 450mil the feds slated for rail lines there.
The US has over 160,000 miles of rail. That $6B is just $37,500 per mile and doesn’t take into account money needed to update/upgrade stations and crossings.
We sit here and dream of HSR while China has laid over 16k miles of rail since 2008. Here in Texas there’s been talk since 2010 and not a single rail laid
Graft. Graft and incompetence.
We’re funneling money into this bullshit while neglecting high speed rail.
St. Louis to Chicago is a very, very flat 260 miles. To buy an Amtrak ticket it’s $36-43 and takes 5h.
I’m traveling to Italy soon and a ticket from Genoa to Rome is €35, about the same distance between a sea front and a mountain range, and takes a whole hour less travel time.
Amtrak is in desperate need of public funding and freight rail needs to be prosecuted for blatantly ignoring laws that give passenger trains the right of way on rails.
The high speed rail the states keep rejecting the money the fed allocates to the rail projects? Wisconsin rejected 450mil the feds slated for rail lines there.
I don’t know if “neglecting” is right word. High-speed rail projects get a $6 billion infusion of federal infrastructure money
The US has over 160,000 miles of rail. That $6B is just $37,500 per mile and doesn’t take into account money needed to update/upgrade stations and crossings.
We sit here and dream of HSR while China has laid over 16k miles of rail since 2008. Here in Texas there’s been talk since 2010 and not a single rail laid