{"id":12862,"date":"2023-09-26T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=12862"},"modified":"2023-09-26T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:12:00","slug":"amtrak-to-triple-investment-in-railway-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=12862","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak to \u2018Triple Investment\u2019 in Railway Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amtrak.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amtrak<\/a>, US public rail service, has revealed plans to triple its annual investment in its infrastructure from US$2 billion in 2023 to over US$6 billion by 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laura Mason, Amtrak executive vice president of capital delivery, spoke at Engineering New Record\u2019s second annual NY\/NJ Infrastructure Forum in Manhattan and declared that she is doubling the size of her department to handle the rising amount of project design and delivery to come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rail operator received US$66 billion under the 2021 federal infrastructure law, the most considerable investment it has acquired since its founding (over 50 years ago).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amtrak receives a mixture of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization. It published details of a survey it had commissioned lately, indicating that 86% of 1,000 respondents support an \u2018American passenger rail system\u2019 and other rail investment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moreover, the survey asked for registered voters\u2019 views on the significance of a public rail network and specifics around state and federal funding. Almost 90% of voters expressed a passenger rail system was at least \u201csomewhat\u201d important, with 31% stating it is \u201cextremely important\u201d. Just 9% claimed such a service was \u201cnot important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previously, Amtrak has declared that it will invest more than US$50 billion into modern trains, improved stations and facilities, new tunnels and bridges, and other vital infrastructure advancements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amtrak, US public rail service, has revealed plans to triple its annual investment in its infrastructure from US$2 billion in 2023 to over US$6 billion by 2025. Laura Mason, Amtrak executive vice president of capital delivery, spoke at Engineering New Record\u2019s second annual NY\/NJ Infrastructure Forum in Manhattan and declared that she is doubling the size of her department to handle the rising amount of project design and delivery to come. The rail operator received US$66 billion under the 2021 federal infrastructure law, the most considerable investment it has acquired since its founding (over 50 years ago). Amtrak receives a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}