Amtrak Bottleneck Turns Biden’s Focus to His Favorite Rail Route
- Project will replace 150-year-old rail tunnel in Baltimore
- President says work will ease travel from Washington to Boston
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President Joe Biden kicked off a project to replace a 150-year-old Baltimore rail tunnel that’s slowing train traffic along the Northeast Corridor as part of a push to highlight projects funded by the president’s signature infrastructure law as prospects for additional legislative victories dim.
“I know how important this tunnel is to commuter rail, and MARC rail, back and forth to Washington. And I know how much it matters to the entire Northeast Corridor, from here to Boston,” Biden said Monday in Baltimore, adding that the work would bring relief to commuters up and down the US East Coast.