This is Amtrak's new dream map after Biden's infrastructure push
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President Biden, sometimes called "Amtrak Joe" for his train enthusiasm, appears to be living up to the name.
The $2 trillion infrastructure plan Biden released this week calls for $80 billion to improve American train service. Rail experts say it's the biggest commitment to rail travel in more than a generation and will revitalize a transportation mode that's long lacked the public investment that road and air travel receive. They say that a lack of consistent public funding has long hobbled American rail service. Amtrak, the largest passenger rail provider in America, said this week that it plans to upgrade and expand service, including as many as 30 new routes and more trains on 20 existing routes. Service would begin in cities like Nashville, Tennessee, Columbus Ohio, Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, pending approval from Congress.
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The Nicaraguan parliament, dominated by the ruling Sandinista Front, on Friday approved a constitutional reform that hands more power to President Daniel Ortega as well as the Central American nation’s police and military.
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