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Amtrak Hopes Infrastructure Bill Will Help Fund a Tunnel to Ease Delays on Northeast Corridor
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Amtrak Hopes Infrastructure Bill Will Help Fund a Tunnel to Ease Delays on Northeast Corridor
House Democratic leaders have set an Oct. 31 deadline to pass the $1 trillion package after it hit snags
By Scott Calvert | Photographs by Matt Roth for The Wall Street Journal
https://twitter.com/scottmcalvert
Oct. 18, 2021 5:30 am ET
BALTIMORE—When the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad completed its 1.4-mile tunnel in 1873, a local newspaper hailed it as “one of the greatest enterprises of the kind that has ever been executed.”
Today, it is Amtrak’s worst bottleneck on its most-traveled corridor between Washington and New Jersey. The passenger railroad plans to construct a new 2-mile tunnel several blocks away, and it is counting on funding in the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill to cover much of the project’s $4 billion tab.
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Amtrak Hopes Infrastructure Bill Will Help Fund a Tunnel to Ease Delays on Northeast Corridor
House Democratic leaders have set an Oct. 31 deadline to pass the $1 trillion package after it hit snags
By Scott Calvert | Photographs by Matt Roth for The Wall Street Journal
https://twitter.com/scottmcalvert
Oct. 18, 2021 5:30 am ET
BALTIMORE—When the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad completed its 1.4-mile tunnel in 1873, a local newspaper hailed it as “one of the greatest enterprises of the kind that has ever been executed.”
Today, it is Amtrak’s worst bottleneck on its most-traveled corridor between Washington and New Jersey. The passenger railroad plans to construct a new 2-mile tunnel several blocks away, and it is counting on funding in the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill to cover much of the project’s $4 billion tab.
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