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Amtrak s Boss Has a Plan to Make You Love Trains Again. Will it Work? Time 5/3/2021 Patrick Lucas Austin © Joe Raedle Getty Images An Amtrak engineer leans on the locomotive as passengers disembark from Amtrak s California Zephyr at the end of its daily 2,438-mile trip to Emeryville/San Francisco from Chicago that took roughly 52 hours on March 25, 2017 in Emeryville, California. Across much of the U.S., taking the train isn’t exactly convenient. Slow service, delays, and poor access often make alternatives like flying or driving more attractive. But on March 31, President Joe Biden nicknamed “Amtrak Joe” for his frequent trips between Delaware and Washington, D.C. unveiled his American Jobs Plan, which among other things proposes $80 billion in new funding for Amtrak, the country’s major passenger rail service. Could that be enough money to get the country the high-speed rail network it deserves?

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