Biden Marks Amtrak's 50th Anniversary with Infrastructure Push on Faster Trains
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On Friday, President Joe Biden helped celebrate Amtrak’s 50th anniversary. While left-leaning articles highlight that the president’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure package would provide the passenger rail system $80 billion to upgrade and expand service, right-leaning articles highlight that Biden’s package would allocate $10 billion a year to passenger and freight rail systems.
A left-leaning article by The Boston Globe highlights that the president’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure package would provide the passenger rail system $80 billion to upgrade and expand service. After Biden announced his plan, Amtrak said it would create 30 new routes and add trains on as many as 20 existing routes over the next 15 years.
USA Today published a centrist article reporting that Biden said he wouldn’t have “missed this for the world.” Biden was formerly known as “Amtrak Joe.”
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that Biden’s package would allocate $10 billion a year to passenger and freight rail systems. Biden said that in addition to creating “critical jobs,” the plan would also expand rail systems between cities outside of the northeast corridor.