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Wreck Adds to the Debate on Amtrak Funding
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Wreck Adds to the Debate on Amtrak Funding
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
MAY 15, 2015
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/us/politics/
wreck-adds-fuel-to-debate-on-amtrak-funding.html
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WASHINGTON The question on congressional culpability for the deadly train
derailment in Philadelphia was not even finished when House Speaker John
A. Boehner of Ohio gruffly declared it stupid.
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Its all about funding. Its all about funding, he said, as he turned from
the podium Thursday to abruptly close his weekly news conference. Well,
obviously, its not about funding. The train was going twice the speed
limit. Adequate funds were there, no moneys been cut from rail safety. And
its hard for me to imagine that people take the bait on some of the
nonsense that gets spewed around here.
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But the debate over Amtrak funding after the derailment of Northeast
Regional Train No. 188 will not be so easily dismissed. House Republicans
cut more than $1 billion from President Obamas $2.45 billion Amtrak
funding request the day after the derailment, and Democrats may be asked
to explain why hundreds of millions of dollars from the 2009 stimulus law
was earmarked for Amtraks Northeast corridor to little obvious effect.
Continue reading the main story
Federal Money for Amtrak
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A committee led by House Republicans voted to cut appropriations for
Amtrak by $251 million in 2016, while the presidents budget proposes
increasing financing by $1 billion.
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Speaker Boehner speaks with massive ignorance, Senator Charles E. Schumer,
Democrat of New York, said Friday outside Pennsylvania Station in New
York, lamenting the nonfunctioning positive train control safety system
aboard the derailed train.
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More to the point, Train 188 was equipped with the safety feature
Democrats are lamenting, which should have automatically slowed the train
as it approached the curve. It just wasnt operational.
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But all of this is at the margins for a Northeast rail system whose
backlog of infrastructure needs totals $21 billion, according to an
advisory commission for the Northeast Corridor.
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But Democrats say in the end, more money and less congressional meddling
will be needed.
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The backlog of repairs just to replace infrastructure on the main
Northeast Corridor track deemed beyond useful life has reached $15.9
billion between Washington and Boston, according to a report in September
by Amtraks Northeast Corridor Infrastructure and Operations Advisory
Commission.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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