The nation’s train-rider-in-chief visited an Amtrak maintenance shop in his home state Monday to tout $16 billion in projects to improve rail service in the Northeast Corridor, Amtrak’s busiest line in the country.
“We’re announcing a historic investment in America’s railroads. I’ve been talking about this for a long time, I know. But finally, finally, we’re getting it done,” President Joe Biden said at Amtrak Mechanical Services in Bear, Delaware, just a half hour from his namesake train station in downtown Wilmington. “More than $16 billion dollars ― 16 with a ‘B’ ― billion dollars.”
Biden was famous for his daily commute from there to Washington, D.C., and back over the three decades that he was a U.S. senator. Most members of Congress maintain residences in the capital, but Biden says he spent some three hours each day on the train so he could be with his children each night before bed.
“Amtrak wasn’t just a way to get home to family. The…