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(WASHINGTON) President Joe Biden campaigned on sparking the “second great railroad revolution” in a car-centric nation where rail infrastructure has languished for decades.
The president famously commuted daily from Wilmington, Delaware, to Washington, D.C., during his time as a senator, logging millions of miles riding the rails and earning the nickname “Amtrak Joe.”
“He s the first president in decades who s routinely ridden trains and he understands just how functional they are,” Robert Yaro, the former president of the New York s Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit civic planning organization, and a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, told ABC News.
Wyden, Merkley, Democrat colleagues reintroduce ‘Green New Deal’ resolution
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Thursday they joined colleagues to reintroduce the Green New Deal Resolution, legislation that they said would address the existential challenge of climate change and create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the process.
“Oregonians enduring longer wildfire seasons along with prolonged droughts know full well how the climate crisis is already ravaging communities throughout our state,” Wyden said. “The need to act is now, and the Green New Deal recognizes that urgency by sending a powerful message that it’s time to kick America’s carbon habit before it destroys our families, our economy, and the future of our planet.”
April 15, 2021
As President Biden pushes his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, high-speed rail advocates hope he will make a nationwide bullet train a reality.
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As President Biden pushes his $2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan, transportation advocates are hopeful the nation s rail system could finally get its long-awaited moment in the sun. We ve got a president who loves trains, a secretary of transportation that s talking about the need to become the world leader, Ezra Silk, political director of the U.S. High Speed Rail Association, says of President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
President Biden, nicknamed Amtrak Joe, took the train daily from his home in Delaware to D.C. during his 36 years in the Senate. He even launched his first presidential campaign in 1987 at his hometown train station, and rode the rails hours after announcing his White House bid in 2019.
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