Florida might have rejected close to $2 billion for a high-speed rail project. But the Wall Street Journal is reporting that $1.3 billion of it could be allocated to Amtrak, which would mark the first time the national rail carrier has received federal money specifically for high-speed rail development. Unsurprisingly, the money would likely go towards increasing the speed of trains on the heavily-trafficked passenger corridor between Washington, DC and Boston. Improving Amtrak’s most popular line makes a lot of sense: last year, 10 million passengers traveled on the Northeast Corridor out of a total ridership of just under 30 million; the second and third-most popular rail corridors, both in California, carried 2.6 and 1.5 million passengers, respectively.

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