Northeast Corridor facing 'major investment crisis'

摘要

The president and CEO of Amtrak Mr Joseph Boardman has warned the US government that the country's busiest inter-city passenger railway, the Northeast Corridor (NEC) from Boston to New York and Washington DC, is facing a "major coming investment crisis that, without a solution, will mean strangled growth and deteriorating service." "We have pushed the current NEC infrastructure about as far as it can go, but the end of demand and growth is nowhere in sight," Boardman told the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on April 17. "A new model for investment is needed. If we do not obtain one, the outlook for the system's capacity and condition is grim."