President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor.
The Democratic president is headed to Bear, Delaware, on Monday to announce more than $16 billion in new funding that will go toward 25 passenger rail projects between Boston and Washington, the White House says. Bear is located about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from Biden’s home of Wilmington.
His remarks will be held at the Amtrak Bear Maintenance Shops, where trains are maintained and repaired. The investments, the White House says, will help trains run faster, cut delays and create union jobs.
I’m not going to do your research for you.
If you want to believe that they’re just scraping by and need taxpayer handouts to expand, then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
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This is what they were referencing, most likely.
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800,000 in 7 years is like 120,000 per year.
Yeah, it didn’t seem outrageous to me either, but that’s the most recent information regarding their compensation I could find, so I just assume that’s what they were referencing.
I feel like half these train guys are in it just to be “train guys” at this point. It’s a living.