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Originally Posted by electricron
And Acela is not responsible to help fund that $28 billion repair bill?
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Some of it, yes, but obviously most repairs are the responsibility of states, given they run the commuter agencies that dominate the corridor.
Acela is not the major operator on the NE Corridor. 90-95% of the train traffic on the busiest portions of the NE Corridor consists of NJ Transit and Metro North. The ARC project is primarily a NY-NJ project, not an Amtrak project. Commuter traffic, not Amtrak, drives the corridor.