Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor To Get $16 Billion Update

November 6, 2023 Biden Administration, Infrastructure

The Hill reports:

The Biden administration on Monday will announce a $16.4 investment for rail projects along Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor as part of the overall investments in infrastructure by President Biden, a longtime Amtrak user.

The funding will go to 25 passenger rail projects and will come from the bipartisan infrastructure law’s overall $66 billion investment in rail. The projects are an effort to move “the United States closer to his vision for world-class passenger rail,” an official said.

Biden will travel to Wilmington, Del., to make the announcement, officials said. As a senator, the president took the Amtrak for decades while commuting to Washington, D.C.

Roll Call reports:



Among the projects awarded funding is the 150-year-old, 1.4-mile Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel that runs beneath west Baltimore that serves Amtrak, Maryland commuters and freight trains. It is set to receive $4.7 billion in a phased funding agreement. Its tight curves and steep incline force trains to slow to 30 miles per hour, making it the largest bottleneck between Washington and New Jersey. The updates are expected to significantly increase the speeds for trains using the passage.

The second-highest share of the cash will go to the Gateway Hudson River Tunnel Project aimed at easing congestion between New York and New Jersey. At $3.8 billion in phased funding, the sum bumps the Biden administration’s total funding commitments to the Gateway project up to $11 billion from a combination of sources, according to the White House. The current structure, in use for more than a century, suffered damage from Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

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