Senate Bill to ease Environmental Reviews

[jis]

http://www.progressiverailroading.com/federal_legislation_regulation/news/Bill-would-streamline-feds-environmental-permitting-for-rail-projects--43873?email=lwjm@optonline.net&utm_medium=email&utm_source=prdailynews&utm_campaign=prdailynews03/19/2015

U.S. Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) yesterday introduced a bill designed to streamline the federal government's environmental permitting process for rail infrastructure projects.

The proposed "Track, Railroad and Infrastructure Network Act" (TRAIN) would add rail to the project permitting streamlining that was included in the MAP-21 surface transportation law that Congress passed in 2012, Blunt said in a press release.

.

...

 

[Ryan]

Someone gets paid a lot of money to come up with these clever acronyms.

 

[Bob Dylan]

Someone gets paid a lot of money to come up with these clever acronyms.

Being on a Senate staff is considered good duty on the hill if your Senator isn't a jerk and has Seniority!

 

[jis]

And it is not like some of the interns who quite often do the real work get fabulously paid either.

 

[Bob Dylan]

And it is not like some of the interns who quite often do the real work get fabulously paid either.

True this in all organizations and companies also!

 

[WoodyinNYC]

If this means simply that railroads should get the same easier rules as highways, I'm all for it.

I'm sure that both these Senators are thinking about the freights, not passenger rail, but I don't see how it could hurt Amtrak. If it speeds things up by even a few months on South of the Lake project, D.C.-Richmond, or Richmond-Petersburg-Raleigh, then it could help greatly. Hey, maybe the River Runner Kansas City-St Louis and Lincoln Service St Louis-Chicago could benefit. And a daily Cardinal too.