I was wondering more about the other portion of funding out of the overall $7.2 billion.
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The bill, approved by a vote of 316 to 101, authorizes $7.2 billion in federal subsidies for passenger rail, including about $1.4 billion a year over four years in subsidies for Amtrak.
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Amtrak gets $1.4B a year for 4 years (so $5.6B), leaving about $1.6B for everything else being funded by this bill. That's only $400 million a year over the 4 years being funded...
Anyone know what it was hoped to be?
Also, what do people think of the move to break Amtrak into two divisions, the NE corridor, and everywhere else, and let the NE corridor keep its own operating profits to plow back into capital improvements?