Biden's Amtrak Package -- April 2, 2021

Most interesting new route: Pueblo, Colorado, north to Cheyenne, Wyoming.

• someone in DC must live out there; that I-25 corridor is "hell" from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins;
• for someone to have caught that route, someone was paying attention;
  

Three suggestions.

First suggestion:

• add a route from Minneapolis to Omaha to Kansas City;
• if they can put in a new route from Pueblo, Colorado, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, they can put in a Minneapolis-Sioux Falls-Omaha-Kansas City route

Second suggestion:

• add a more direct route between DFW-Permian-El Paso;
• this is a no-brainer; this will move the migrants coming up from the southern border to points east and west;
• El Paso would welcome this; I have no idea how Amtrak missed this one;
  

Third suggestion:

• fund the ambitious 30+ new route / modification plan at 80% of estimate for total project;
• then award money on a state-by-state basis once the permits are all completed and the dirt is ready to be moved;
• but if there's any home to moving this project along, there has to be competition for those dollars;
• most of the additional routes are short routes, each new route inside one or two states