neroden
Engineer
This BS again? With the ARRA money, Amtrak is spending a lot of money replacing life-expired catenary on the NEC, and is *advertising* it as saving time. The previous rounds of upgrades was much the same thing: replacing life-expired track, signals, and equipment, and *advertising* it as saving time. I can see how you might get confused...Rewrite? Nay - it's a matter of interpretation. But, yes, Amtrak got a huge influx of money (I didn't say it was theirs) and they spent it poorly. It was a colossal waste of taxpayer money to save an hour and 20 minutes between WAS and BOS.
Nearly every time Amtrak needs to replace ancient worn-out stuff which it inherited, Amtrak claims that it's making speed improvements. Pay no attention to the speed improvements if you want to see where the money is really going... most of the money would need to be spend just to bring things up to a state of good repair, and the speed improvements are generally gravy.
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