Wilmington -- U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood this week announced a $13.3 million grant for the Delaware Department of Transportation to add a third track immediately south of the Wilmington, DE station. The additional track will eliminate a chokepoint on the Amtrak Northeast Corridor (NEC), improving on-time performance, with increased schedule flexibility on the Amtrak high-speed Acela and Northeast Regional services, as well as local commuter rail service.
The historic investment by the Obama Administration in the Northeast Corridor will modernize its aging railways, dramatically improve its capacity for high-speed rail and create thousands of good-paying jobs by using materials made in the USA, said Secretary LaHood.
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3 comments:
bad enough we have to subsidize amtrak, now we have to throw more money down the rat hole!
why can't the railroad fund this themselves?
why us?, i don't even use the dang thing.
just another brilliant idea by this most corrupt ruling party.
Bring passenger trains back to Salisbury.
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