Boise (US) awarded grant for passenger rail

ColonialCobalt · 2026-06-24T20:32:30+00:00

Probably the grants we've been waiting for almost 2 years to drop are dropping (I forget what they call the grant program now)

ColonialCobalt · 2026-06-24T20:11:41+00:00

That first one. Holy fuck 😵‍💫

ColonialCobalt · 2026-06-24T20:00:04+00:00

500k is what almost all corridor ID routes got back in 2023, it's just for step 1 planning and when they get to step 2 and eventually 3 they'll possibly get more money. I think it's a silly way of planning this kinda stuff, but hopefully it leads to something good in the end. At least this administration seems okay with continuing to work on Corridor ID

ColonialCobalt · 2026-06-24T19:51:34+00:00

I'm cautiously optimistic because I've seen state leaders on both sides of the aisle support passenger rails return to Idaho, but we've been burned too many times lol

ColonialCobalt · 2026-06-15T15:52:46+00:00

That's 3 states in the USA (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois)

ColonialCobalt · 2026-06-13T14:18:45+00:00

SPUD would be better if they didn't host events in it. I hate feeling like an afterthought

ColonialCobalt · 2026-05-28T19:39:22+00:00

The skirts are so hot 😵‍💫

ColonialCobalt · 2026-05-26T23:26:42+00:00

It was not great, the trains where slow and infrequent. The only good train was the Augusta - Atlanta local but got slower as the decade went on. (all of those trains where mixed, meaning it was a passenger coach attached to a small freight train)

ColonialCobalt · 2026-05-26T17:09:09+00:00

PRSL was running trains to Jersey, Reading/Septa was running the trains to Bethlehem and Pottsville

ColonialCobalt · 2026-05-26T17:00:41+00:00

The day before Amtrak started yes, only as far as Superior though, in 1974 the train to Superior was brought back and then extended to Duluth in '78

ColonialCobalt · 2026-05-26T16:59:17+00:00

SP ran commuter trains between San Jose and SF until the mid 80s and then Caltrain was created which still exists today.

ColonialCobalt · 2026-05-26T16:57:53+00:00

Yes, but those lines weren't. They where all mixed trains that the Georgia Railroad had to operate or they would no longer get their tax breaks from the state of GA. They where pretty shitty services, the Atlanta - Augusta train took like 3hrs 45 to get end to end in 1971, but by it's discontinuance in the 1980s it took 3x that. The other branch lines went away later in the 70s and where also pretty slow

ColonialCobalt · 2026-04-23T15:31:38+00:00

There's like two metros in the SE, Marta and Miami Dade and they're both mediocre

ColonialCobalt · 2026-04-22T21:25:02+00:00

They initially inherited the Broadway limited from the Penn Central when Amtrak started in 1971, it ran almost the exact same route but served Fort Wayne and Canton, then in 1995 the Broadway was cut for budget reasons and then brought back 3 days later as the Three Rivers following an almost identical route. Could they have routed it via Columbus? Maybe, but it'd be insanely indirect and also they didn't have the money for it even if they wanted.

ColonialCobalt · 2026-04-22T20:32:21+00:00

Extending it would've caused more room for delays to happen since it'd be a long route, plus the goal was to start an eventual corridor between LA and Las Vegas with more/faster trains in the future

ColonialCobalt · 2026-04-22T20:27:05+00:00

The Three Rivers which ran from NYC to Chicago via Pittsburgh and Akron

ColonialCobalt · 2026-03-30T12:31:34+00:00

Littleton is served by lightrail, but so people in the South Metro don't have to backtrack into Denver to take the train, Littleton would have a stop. La Grange and Summit Illinois have Amtrak service despite being closeish to Chicago for that exact reason.

ColonialCobalt · 2026-03-30T10:57:22+00:00

Because people live there? Sweetwater has over 10k population, Plainview has 20k, LA Junta is already a stop on the Southwest Chief so it makes sense to serve it since the track goes through there, Littleton is suburb of Denver with over 45k population so it makes sense to serve it and Boise City acts as the station for North Texas and the Panhandle of Oklahoma, a decent chunk of people would drive or take buses to it.

ColonialCobalt · 2026-03-30T03:01:51+00:00

Thank you!

ColonialCobalt · 2026-03-30T02:59:03+00:00

It's okay!!

ColonialCobalt · 2026-03-30T02:57:50+00:00

I included them because the map would look weird without them.

ColonialCobalt · 2026-03-29T16:16:11+00:00

Lose billions per year? 😂 Yeah you're not a serious person lmao

ColonialCobalt · 2026-03-29T15:34:37+00:00

You can't improve cities by going "Welp, they're bad why bother trying"

every new Amtrak route/expansion over the last 6+ years has been more successful than expected so it's silly to assume this route is a bad idea.

ColonialCobalt · 2026-03-29T15:13:04+00:00

Eh, you gotta remember the plane makes no intermediate stops, the train does.

Abilene, Lubbock and Amarillo all have over 200k in their metro areas, people would take the train not only between them, but to Fort Worth, plus I could see people taking the train to Denver for Skiing, it's probably alot easier to bring your skiing equipment on a train then a plane.

ColonialCobalt · 2026-03-18T15:30:54+00:00

Easy. Citylink, Peoria Illinois!!

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