“President Obama yesterday revealed his plans to spend $8 billion on high-speed rail projects heralded as the start of a new era in American transportation, but Pennsylvania’s share will be only a tiny fraction of that amount.
“Pennsylvania’s $25.6 million – or 0.3 percent of the total – will go to improving the Philadelphia-Harrisburg “Keystone Corridor,” which carries 14 Amtrak round trips a day, and $750,000 to studying expansion of passenger service “
The money did not include funding that SEPTA and Amtrak had hoped for – for track, signal, and power improvements and the addition of a third express track between Atglen and Paoli in Chester County – that would allow trains in the Keystone Corridor to reach 125 m.p.h., up from 110…”
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