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Kentucky Amtrak station to see improvements
Safe to say the ADA requirements will eat up most of the budget.
Photo of the depot:
Nothing inherently wrong with Ada upgrades, but…this station serves how many passengers per day? Why is any money being invested for a station (no offense) in the boonies when a half mil may be better spent elsewhere to serve many more passengers? Like in Indiana?
iT SURE WOULD BE NICE TO SEE REPAIRS MADE TO THE JACKSON, MICHIGAN AMTRAK STATION, EVEN KEEPING THE STATION OPEN AFTER THE FIRST “TRICK” IS OVER FOR THREE AMTRAK TRAINS ARRIVING/DEPARTING THE STATION WOULD BE A VAST IMPROVEMENT … IT GETS COLD STANDING OUTSIDE WAITING FOR A TRAIN. 11:00 AT NIGHT IS NOT THE BEST TIME TO WAIT OUTSIDE - THAT PROBLEM TAKEN CARE OF - MORE PASSENGERS.
Marysville, Ky isn’t exactly out on the boonies. It has a population of of 30000+ in the area. It is a fair size community on the Ohio River about 75 miles upriver(southeast) from Cincinnati, Oh.
And someone is taking pride in their local depot.
I understand the varying points of view expressed here. It all comes down to how much $$$ is it worth spending on support facilities for these once a day LDs? And Nos. 50/51 don’t even operate once a day. We’ve not advanced one millimeter in 45 years of Amtrak. There should be 3-4 trains on all the LD routes operating DAILY with robust consists in order to make a difference in the transportation marketplace.
But no people of consequence speak for the passenger train, intercity or commuter, and maybe not even for transit. And for those still stuck in the myth that the Democrats want to do for passenger rail all you have to do is look at Massachusetts where the MBTA and MassDOT can’t even manage a 4.5 mile extension of a light rail line (Green Line Lechmere-Somerville) without huge cost overruns and other administrative problems and all indications are the project will be cancelled. But when the Central Artery, aka The Big Dig, 20 years ago was beset with even larger cost overruns, the elected and appointed in charge just turned on the money spigot.
MassDOT and their political enablers, overwhelmingly Democrats, consider the transit riders in the Boston metro region to be children of a lesser God. And now a 10% fare increase for the same mediocre to poor service is planned.
Maybe I went off subject but this all hangs together. That we can’t have expanded intercity is connected to the battles to improve and expand the very urban transit systems that could “feed” those intercity services and provide “last mile” connectivity.
Very well said Mark.
Another great issue of TRAINS magazine! Interesting about what is happening with the Maysville, Kentucky station. What ever happened to the Kentucky Central steam train that ran into Maysville?