Why Amtrak’s Equipment Keeps Breaking Down: Some of It Is 100 Years Old - eviltoast
Why Amtrak’s System Keeps Breaking Down: It’s 100 Years Old
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An explosion at a substation in June caused just one in a series of disruptions along the Northeast Corridor this summer. Upgrades would come at enormous cost and take more than a decade.
  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    1 month ago

    That’s typically how mass transit is covered; as a cost, with no mention of benefits.

    Roads don’t get covered in the same way as they’re generally not seen as profit-making enterprises.