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Like you alluded to, it’s mostly about finding, gathering, and organizing the political will to fund such projects. There are, I imagine, plenty of projects arc

Like you alluded to, it’s mostly about finding, gathering, and organizing the political will to fund such projects. There are, I imagine, plenty of projects archived in some filing cabinets in the basement of some federal building somewhere that had its day in the legislature and didn’t make the cut. My favorite example of this being the 2012 plan for the Northeast Corridor: http://www.gcpvd.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Amtrak_Amtrak-Vision-for-the-Northeast-Corridor.pdf http://www.gcpvd.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Amtrak_Amtra... Super Express service between New York and Boston in 90 minutes, cutting through central Connecticut with no stops, carried by new EMU-driven rolling stock. tl;dr: Not happening. Instead, Amtrak’s gonna straighten out a few kinks in the current track so the Acela service can get up to and maintain higher speeds south of New York and in eastern Connecticut. Not sure how they’re gonna add more capacity, if at all.

vonmoltke 8y ago
> Like you alluded to, it’s mostly about finding, gathering, and organizing the political will to fund such projects. There are, I imagine, plenty of projects archived in some filing cabinets in the basement of some federal building somewhere that had its day in the legislature and didn’t make the cut. My favorite example of this being the 2012 plan for the Northeast Corridor: To be fair, Hurricane Sandy and the associated disruption of the Gateway Project would have probably done that ambitious plan in on its own. > Instead, Amtrak’s gonna straighten out a few kinks in the current track so the Acela service can get up to and maintain higher speeds south of New York and in eastern Connecticut. Not sure how they’re gonna add more capacity, if at all. "Instead"? If I am reading that long-term plan correctly, this was the actual first phase of the project. The increased capacity comes from making the Acela trains longer and more frequent (per the proposal).

vonmoltke 8y ago

> Like you alluded to, it’s mostly about finding, gathering, and organizing the political will to fund such projects. There are, I imagine, plenty of projects archived in some filing cabinets in the basement of some federal building somewhere that had its day in the legislature and didn’t make the cut. My favorite example of this being the 2012 plan for the Northeast Corridor: To be fair, Hurricane Sandy and the associated disruption of the Gateway Project would have probably done that ambitious plan in on its own. > Instead, Amtrak’s gonna straighten out a few kinks in the current track so the Acela service can get up to and maintain higher speeds south of New York and in eastern Connecticut. Not sure how they’re gonna add more capacity, if at all. "Instead"? If I am reading that long-term plan correctly, this was the actual first phase of the project. The increased capacity comes from making the Acela trains longer and more frequent (per the proposal).