Washington Post article that concentrates mainy on work needing to be done Baltimore and south. Did not seem to be needing subcription to view article but may be locked out for some if have read too many articles ?
Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor is busy, old and falling apart (washingtonpost.com)
Actually doesn’t mention ‘south’ [from Baltimore to Washington] except circumstantially (that would be largely the 3-tracks-to-4 expense that is necessary but oh-so-difficult) – and likely, given the hard importance of things like the 30-mph double-track Baltimore tunnel restriction, its critical path even to EIS generation is well over a decade away. Gunpow etc. are all higher priorities…
Interesting that the Post didn’t note that Gateway, when built, will be double-track with a speed restriction…
Very clever use of rhetoric, in mentioning the age of key infrastructure and hinting at its infirmity with pictures. I can see the ‘gearing up’ for what Joe was saying about the spending on the Avelia Liberty trainsets, too… “don’t expect a great big burst of speed”, indeed, at least until a few tens of billions and decades of time are spent. What did they say the service lifetime of those trainsets was supposed to be?
Fun to watch them work the LD ‘essential transportation’ argument into a story about the NEC from Washington to ‘New Jersey’.
Locked.
Beware of people who start a conversation with “beware” as it’s simply shorthand for saying the post or article is wrong (from their POV).
See if you can get the video to play (about 5 minutes). That worked for me without any indication I had only some number of articles left or needed to subscribe to something.
It’s not a bad article, and the writer tried to do their homework.
Video is viewable
I thought I had typed “actually” but the automatic word completion spell checker changed it to “beware” which makes zero sense.
Good video reporting including the Trains reporter.
Here I was chasing my tail thinking it was a cool recursive reference that I wasn’t quite understanding. I just couldn’t get it, and now I can see why… a relief! [:)]
It was beyond comprehension unless one is suffering from a formal thought disorder!!! [:-^]