Hell yeah the US just gave like 8 billion dollars in funding to intercity passenger rail. Including some HIGH SPEED RAIL?!?!?!??
can't overstate how massive this is, i used to work in rail and US trains were so pitifully underfunded that my employer wouldn't even bid on those projects because it wasn't worth the time. This is actually putting us on the level of other countries that invest in transportation as a public service??? And 8 billion? Like this could actually really make some massive change.
@amtrak-official
Yeah, I announced this yesterday and that was one of the most exciting days for US rail in years
hell yeah, here's a source from the department of transportation, dated dec 8
HIGH SPEED RAIL HIGH SPEED RAIL
OH FUCK YEAH TRAINS































