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Yahoo: Biden Wants Amtrak to Run More Trains in the Northeast, but He’s Ignoring a Big Question
Biden Wants Amtrak to Run More Trains in the Northeast, but He's Ignoring a Big Question
Yahoo! News
Adam Edelman
June 20, 2021
“If you subsidize the train, anyone can afford it, but if you don’t, then what? Bus carriers provide outstanding service every day at a very affordable price. You have to really think, what’s the most affordable way,” said Peter Pantuso, the president and CEO of the American Bus Association, the largest bus trade group in the U.S. “You can put bus service anywhere, and as population densities shift, or as any other trends shift, which is the case in the rapidly changing Lehigh Valley, you can move it around. You can’t move a rail system around.”
