PHILADELPHIA – Washington to
Boston in 3 hours? Amtrak wants to make it happen.
On Tuesday, Amtrak unveiled a $117 billion,
30-year vision for a high-speed rail line on the East Coast that would
drastically reduce travel times along the congested corridor using trains traveling up to 220 miles
(354 kilometers) per hour.
“Amtrak is putting forward a bold vision of a
realistic and attainable future that can revolutionize transportation,
travel patterns and economic development in the Northeast for
generations,” said Amtrak President Joseph Boardman during a news conference at 30th Street Station
in Philadelphia.
The
proposal, which would require building a new set of tracks from Boston
to Washington, D.C., is at the concept stage and there's no funding plan
in place, Boardman said.
The project
would likely use some combination of public and private investment and
hopefully be phased in starting in 2015, he said.
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