These cable providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next a house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee hears testimony from amtrak c. E. O. Steven gardner and the executive director of the northwest Corridor Commission on improving Train Service and efficiency. They also discuss passenger safety, route options in the midwest and west coast and high speed rail. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair may call recess at any time. Without objection, so ordered. I recognize myself for Opening Statement for five minutes. Todays hearing examines the current and future state of amtrak. The Infrastructure Investment and job act gave historic funding to railroads with a large portion of that money going to amtrak. Amtrak is a federally chartere
That the situation can only get more acute. Even though we had great deal of success after 2011 adoption of street bonds of fixing our streets. We are still in a situation that over 50 of our streets are in need of paving. That has impact in safety and costs. People spend several hundreds dollars a year repairing their cars from our streets. And as people move around on foot and bicycle they have difficulty. On the transit side we know that our reliability issues stem from the infrastructure. We have many facilities over 100 years old. They have never had a full complete overhaul to accommodate todays fleet. We have a situation where our fleets dont fit in our facilities. What would be most efficient is to raise a vehicle on a lift, to get underneath it to fix it. Instead we have pits in the facility that people have to climb in and work to fix it, and when it rains the pit floods and that causes additional challenges. We are not efficient getting maintenance done. And impounding that,
New Gulf Coast Amtrak route awaiting decision from Mobile officials neworleanscitybusiness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from neworleanscitybusiness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(The Center Square) – The restoration of Amtrak service to the Gulf Coast is still planned, but city of Mobile officials are balking at the three-year, $3 million subsidy required
There are 67 projects nationwide eligible for Federal Railroad Administration funding. Minnesota is the only state that has the necessary 20% match for its nearly $1 billion project.