Friday, April 26, 2024

Amtrak seeks $300m for Great Lakes-area stations

 Cleveland’s Amtrak station occasionally sees a daylight passenger train when
one of its nightly Chicago-East Coast trains is tardy enough. When that happens,
Clevelanders get to imagine what it might be like if had normal daytime train
service like its counterparts in neighboring states and a station more befit-
ting a major city (KJP). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

Cleveland and other Northern Ohio cities would gain new, larger train stations from a program proposed by passenger railroad Amtrak to improve its intercity services here. The program, a five-year, $300 million Great Lakes Stations Improvement initiative, represents the first time in Amtrak’s 53-year history that it has pursued such an aggressive development effort for this region and specifically for the Cleveland-Chicago route.

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