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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity making available nearly $9 billion in funding to upgrade and expand passenger rail services along the Northeast Corridor.
  These funds will be issued through the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program, which grew to $36 billion over the next five years thanks to President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
  Taken together, more than $11 billion in passenger rail funds have been made available in the first round of funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
  
  
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context: Let's see Wisconsin fuck this one up again. >
  
  I'm just going to guess that this will almost exclusively go the East and West seaboards. >
  
  It says it’s for the NEC >
  
  Los Angeles Train to Las Vegas... where the fuck are you....?!? >
  
  That would be the drunkest form of transportation in history >
  
  seems like a huge moneymaker as long as they are smart with their beverage prices >
  
  Fantastic!
  Rail moves people more efficiently than cars and that saves energy and less clogging of the roads probably saves lives. >
  
  Loves me the train travel! OMG the seats are so roomy. >
  
  I guess it all depends on where you're traveling. Commuter trains in some places can be quite crowded for rush hour(s). >
  
  Truth. The trains here in Washington state, and the Empire Builder that travels from Oregon/Washington to Chicago have nice wide seats with lots of leg room. So even if the train is crowded, there's still room to breathe. >
  
  Biden likes trains, what can you say. >
  
  Do you like trains redditor? I like trains. - Biden, probably. >
  
  cries in Coast Starlight and Cascades >
  
  Is that the train that Sen Murray and Wyden sometimes take >
  
  Yes. >
  
  We should be building more rail lines. 9 billion to make the Acela 2% better is a waste of money. >
  
  Exactly. The number of actual lines we have in this country is pathetic. We don’t need giant coast-to-coast lines. We need lines where you can get to a sister city in 45 minutes. 
  We need local light rail and money to refurbish streets to have dedicated transit lanes. 
  We need local transit to come every 15 minutes instead of every 2 hours. 
  We don’t need to blow money on the Acela line. >
  
  NYC to Buffalo in 45 would be cool. I feel that we NYers could afford to put rail throughout and be a model to the rest of this country. But hey what do I know. >
  
  Big agree. 
  Every flight between Buffalo-NYC or Rochester-NYC is a policy failure. That trip could easily be 1.5 hours at most by rail. >
  
  Should have given the workers sick days. >
  
  That's freight rail not AMTRAK