why would you blame amtrak...they barely get enough funding while the us is so focused on roads and car travel.

@waynejus4092

Ай бұрын

Spot on, car culture obsessed nation

@tonyburzio4107

Ай бұрын

FALSE: Amtrak has gotten an immense amount of money in the last few years and wasted most of it. The only beneficiary of the mess is the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General, who has been busy writing waste reports like you wouldn't believe.

@pedrosantana6626

Ай бұрын

@@tonyburzio4107 amtrack services the country, its not like all of its money is going to be able to upgrade a single region or state

@vicrob82

Ай бұрын

SAY THAT AGAIN !!!!

@mattkennedy6115

Ай бұрын

@@pedrosantana6626it actually has gotten alot of money for the northeast corridor but hasn’t awarded contracts to most of the projects. I don’t know if that money will effect whatever portion of the system was out of service though

Wouldn't have happened if they had received proper funding for the last 50 years.

@gerrylee1687

Ай бұрын

Amtrak owns the power lines and the tracks

@marcitos_9329

Ай бұрын

@@gerrylee1687 Funding from Congress lacking since ever.

@dfirth224

Ай бұрын

@@gerrylee1687 But Amtrak gets their money from Congress. Amtrak has been a political football for 50 years. Republicans are always wanting to defund Amtrak and get rid of it.

@PatricioGarcia1973

Ай бұрын

Amtrack gets $22 billion from taxpayers, where does the money go? Money from ticket sales, advertising, and parking fee. All the money never is accounted for, just like MTA in NYC, Penn station $50 billion overbudget, and 10 years later than stipulated. 2nd avenue, how many billions? Should be some kimd of accountability of taxpayer money mismanagement.

@exerosis5758

Ай бұрын

@@PatricioGarcia1973 you mean maybe 2 billion annually if lucky? This was the first major investment in amtrak I like a decade at least probably longer. Most is going to connect NEC and a lot of the corrupt bs isn't even happening within amtrak control.

Imagine blaming a transit agency that is just as underfunded as your own agency

@tonyburzio4107

Ай бұрын

FALSE: Amtrak has gotten an immense amount of money in the last few years and wasted most of it. The only beneficiary of the mess is the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General, who has been busy writing waste reports like you wouldn't believe.

@dmnddog7417

Ай бұрын

@@tonyburzio4107 Whatever, they didn't get nearly as much as they actually need to repair and upgrade infrastructure. Highways easily get ten times more.

@PatricioGarcia1973

Ай бұрын

@@dmnddog7417$22 billion is not enough? Sometimes you have to make sacrifices and cut service, cut employees, on the lines that dont turn a profit. For Amtrak only the eastern corridor is profitable and has good ridership. 30 hours to Chicago, 28 to Florida if you are lucky, no high speed trains. Brightline has better service than amtrak

Imagine not adequately funding a service and then asking why it doesn't work properly

Time to make Amtrak GREAT AGAIN! Fund it properly, give it dedicated tracks, improve all its infrastructure... These are all no brainers for the most important rail line in the America's BAR NONE!

@nityking1

Ай бұрын

I agree the jobs potential for a HST is enormous!

@tonyburzio4107

Ай бұрын

FALSE: Amtrak has gotten an immense amount of money in the last few years and wasted most of it. The only beneficiary of the mess is the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General, who has been busy writing waste reports like you wouldn't believe.

@qjtvaddict

Ай бұрын

Between Newark,NJ AND WILMINGTON, DE Amtrak has dedicated tracks the only places it actually has to share with local trains are in Massachusetts, CT east of New Haven and NYC to Newark other than that it has its own track

@qjtvaddict

Ай бұрын

@@tonyburzio4107look at how Europe and East Asia does rail it’s not hard

@RF_NY1

Ай бұрын

@@qjtvaddict Far as I know, the trains that go out to Pittsburgh share the track with Norfolk Southern.

Well, you should fund it properly. If not, congrats on losing my vote.

@mrbond9882

Ай бұрын

Lol your vote doesn't count. The black sheep of this country decide who gets the power. They always vote dumb

@OSUfan757

Ай бұрын

Amen! Precicely what I commented!

@mirzaahmed6589

Ай бұрын

Why would a state governor fund Amtrak?

@georgeronn1263

Ай бұрын

If your plan was to vote democratic, then that’s exactly what the GOP wants you to do, not vote.

@gamerfan8445

Ай бұрын

@@georgeronn1263 I can easily vote for a different dem. Also believe, I have more problems with the Republicans than the democrats.

You can't blame Amtrak mister GoVeRnOr! Amtrak has been neglected for decades by the government and not given the resources (funds) they need to fix the issues, and then when this crap happens, you're the first to blame Amtrak. You are part of the problem. Get them the funding they need to fix the entire corridor and quit whining about an "Amtrak" problem until then!

I am sorry, sure an advocate is neat and probably useful, but if the legislature is not coughing up the sorely needed money to fix this 140-year-old Northeast Corridor then things will keep gradually falling apart. It's not a mystery, every other semi-developed nation does rail better than us at this point and the NEC is supposed to be our "crown jewel", you get what you pay for folks.

@tonyburzio4107

Ай бұрын

FALSE: Amtrak has gotten an immense amount of money in the last few years and wasted most of it. The only beneficiary of the mess is the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General, who has been busy writing waste reports like you wouldn't believe.

@oloplyflapdar7384

Ай бұрын

@@tonyburzio4107 Compare highway development, maintenance and lane additions and compare those similar investments in transport rail and you will find that we have been massively car centric since at least 1940's, which was the time when most public transport systems were being systematically dismantled. so a small spike in what is ultimately a dearth of investment isn't going to make me go wild. Sure, construction companies are most certainly price gouging government for the work, but what profit based entity doesn't price gouge as much as possible, they'd be dumb not to. A massive amount of work is being done on the New Jersey NEC and the Hudson River tunnels connecting into Manhattan. These are going to be pretty game changing and productive investments. Not enough compared to how much we pay for highways and other car infrastructure.

Murphy, a government entity responsible for funding of NJT, and in result Amtrak… blaming Amtrak for not maintaining their infrastructure and not having the proper funding. Makes sense

@gerrylee1687

Ай бұрын

Amtrak is the owner of the tracks, power lines and most of the stations

@gerrylee1687

Ай бұрын

NJ transit rents the tracks from Amtrak

@oloplyflapdar7384

Ай бұрын

@@gerrylee1687 Amtrak should know better because the NEC is, by far, the most profitable service that Amtrak provides, while the majority of other service lines, not surprisingly, are negative in profitability.

@gerrylee1687

Ай бұрын

@@oloplyflapdar7384 anything with government is crap. I didn’t trust Obamacare

@greenmachine5600

Ай бұрын

​@@oloplyflapdar7384profitably should not be the goal. Good service is the goal

Okay so Amtrak is now forwarding that letter directly to the federal government which keeps cutting funding...

@tonyburzio4107

Ай бұрын

FALSE: Amtrak has gotten an immense amount of money in the last few years and wasted most of it. The only beneficiary of the mess is the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General, who has been busy writing waste reports like you wouldn't believe.

@thetrainguy1

Ай бұрын

​@@tonyburzio4107Stop spamming the same stupid comment. You don't know what the hell you are talking about.

Blaming Amtrak doesn't cut it gov. No one is responsible for a vital system. A say nothing or say little so not to admit accountability left thousands of customers in the dark. Amtrak may be contracted for that corridor maintenance, but there is no excuse for no one knowing or able to follow up. A downed wire could mean anything, for scheduled maintenance not coordinated, to wind damage. Most large transit have an 'operations' group whose sole job is to ensure the system runs and is accountable. Back up buses, diesel engine standby, emergency crews, all should have been planned. Leaving customers in the dark and just blaming Amtrak doesn't cut it, gov. You can't get home on a blame train.

See, if they had enough funding...

@tonyburzio4107

Ай бұрын

FALSE: Amtrak has gotten an immense amount of money in the last few years and wasted most of it. The only beneficiary of the mess is the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General, who has been busy writing waste reports like you wouldn't believe.

Give more funding to Amtrak!

@tonyburzio4107

Ай бұрын

FALSE: Amtrak has gotten an immense amount of money in the last few years and wasted most of it. The only beneficiary of the mess is the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General, who has been busy writing waste reports like you wouldn't believe.

They want accountability but won't provide funding.

I take NJ Transit monthly from Trenton to NYC and the infrastructure is VERY old. Many people don’t bother to pay attention when they look out the windows (the ones that you can actually see through that aren’t covered in dirt or thousands of little scratches) that parts of the line look like it’s falling apart. The covered platform of Newark Penn Station when approaching from the south is literally collapsing with barriers to keep people from walking into danger with a cracked wall having long pieces of duck tape holding it together (comical if it wasn’t so sad). The state and federal government need to get their act together and properly fund this line. The Northeast corridor between NYC and Philadelphia is probably the most heavily traveled train line in the country.

Why put the blame on Amtrak, Governor Murphy? Have you lost your mind?

@jmlinden7

Ай бұрын

They own the track and are therefore responsible for maintenance

Amtrak should own properties and businesses around its stations so it could make money on its own.

playing the blaming game :D

Downed wires: What type of wires, where and why did they come down, all of that matters.

@WildWildWeasel

Ай бұрын

Someone who works there told me it was a catenary wire issue, specifically the device that tensions the wires so they won't sag and get caught in the panto

What do you expect with a single mainline? Where is the secondary parallel rail line that also acts as backup?

@s0nnyburnett

Ай бұрын

Talking about a system that was laid out before the last century.

If you think this is bad, imagine if the greenies get their way and insist that ALL passenger trains be electrified!

Why not just charge up an electric car and take two or three charges to get where they are going.

imagine a national emergency

It's a 2min video, I'm 60% in and the actual topic hasn't come up (but I've heard the trains are generally unreliable). I'm out of this narrative

There's going to be a congestion pricing part 2 to help fund Amtrak.

I love how the news station keeps saying "Amtrak owns / maintains the rails", while prominently featuring the Summit Station on the Morris & Essex Lines, which NJT owns & maintains 🤣. The reporter was literally standing outside of the Summit station.

This is why i NEVER EVER EVER wanted to live in New jersey, let alone commute to Manhattan

Wouldn't have happened if they had received proper funding for the last 50 years. This is Exactly why, Amtrack, Commuter Trains & Cargo Trains should run on Separate rail lines! Any why they should be hybrid of electric and deasil engines.

When did it become NJ’s job to find and subsidize Amtrak??? NJT keeps getting the shaft despite single-handedly keeping NYC running. Oh yeah… and thanks to NYC’s congestion pricing even more will be on the trains… and solely reliant on them.

@oloplyflapdar7384

Ай бұрын

Maybe NJ Transit should look into another rail route that is parallel to the NEC but further West (It would be all run by NJTransit, and then it links back up at Trenton, or maybe the Princeton Station dinky. It would be a nice redundancy. all pie in the sky, but other countries do this kind of thing, especially in a place as densely populated as New Jersey.

The same man calling it a disaster is the reason that the disaster instead of crying about congestion pricing, they should be worried about fixing their own transit

what happen to the funding given to Amtrak from the Infrastructure bill?

OIL COMPANIES K!llED AMTRAK

Corruption is a cancer

there's something to be said for diesel...

The people deserve an explanation.

That Woman's Husband should have just spent the Night at His Girlfriend's place in NYC.

Dont understand how or why people fail to have a second option to commute?

We have close to a trillion $ going to the military, and billions going to support the oil industry. American infrastructure has been failing for years. Much of it was built by engineers that are now retired or long dead. Most need to be completely replaced, and most of the new people have no clue how it works. There is never money for it. One day it will all stop and nothing will work ever again. Then you can walk or hope you have a bicycle.

just a normal day in the new america. why are any of you surprised?

But yet now they want to do congestion pricing in NYC when the infrastructure can’t support the volume of passengers now.

NJT already has the solution, but not enough of them. It's the ALP-45 DP dual-mode locomotive, which can run on electric or diesel!

Meanwhile China built the equivalent to the Interstate system in 217 mph high speed rail in 10 years. We dealing with 1800's infrastructure in good ole USA.

our railroad system is a joke

Picard quote

Good ol' US infrastructure for you.

Pete buttigieg is doing a great job

Highways are more reliable than trains

Did any of the brains think about a diesel locomotives?

@OSUfan757

Ай бұрын

As much as I'd like to agree with you, NY Penn station is 100% underground and doesn't have the adequate ventilation for diesel loco's. Outside of that I'm with you fully!

They should’ve used diesel trains as backup

@stevenmitchell1

Ай бұрын

But they would need tracks designed for diesel trains, wouldn't they?

@counterfit5

Ай бұрын

​@@stevenmitchell1no ? That's not a thing

@OSUfan757

Ай бұрын

I said the same thing to someone else. I would agree with you, but NY Penn station is completely underground. and because of that, diesel loco's would essentially be suicide. Outside of that station? I'm in full agreeance!

@OSUfan757

Ай бұрын

@@stevenmitchell1 Yeah there's no such thing. The only exception is if you'd be referring to the Hudson river tunnels or NY Penn station. Both of those can only be electric because they don't have adequate ventilation.

What about nationalizing the infrastructure (tracks, signaling, power) of the northeast rail corridor, but keep the actual train operating companies (Amtrak, NJTransit, LIRR, MetroNorth) private. One might even suggest calling this national rail infrastructure company something appropriate like "Network Rail".

@counterfit5

Ай бұрын

Who do you think owns most of the NEC already?

@tonyburzio4107

Ай бұрын

Government Amtrak has wasted almost all of Joe Biden's infrastructure money.

What happens when Amtrak supports Biden

Or maybe these people could move to a civilized part of the country and drive like the rest of us, instead of using a 115 year old technology that is bound to fail.

@DavidNightjet

Ай бұрын

Because driving is dangerous and slow and wildly inefficient and horrifically expensive and they don't want to die from either an accident or old age on the way to work in the morning. And I completely agree with them.

A total joke….did this train aggravation for years.

Just so we are all clear: YES the almighty GOD definitely has His own right hand involved in all the chaos present now. Call it nature, man or mechanical errors, but rest assured this is The Day The One God HAS brought into being for the crimes against humanity and the earth by humanity, the evil it produces. For ALL are guilty and will percieve this before their death or "cleansing". You were told.

@DavidNightjet

Ай бұрын

What?

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, DBA Amtrak , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. -- Wikipedia 😂

Other lawmakers want accountability: translated - other elected officials want free visibility to pile on...

Did he issue a full-throated response before writing the strongly-worded letter? That would be such an authentic way to reach out, and to speak truth to power! Black Lives Matter! Trans Rights Are Human Rights!

@stevenmitchell1

Ай бұрын

Said by someone who still believes in a tribal religion...

@samudramanthan8645

Ай бұрын

@@stevenmitchell1 How stunning!

@stevenmitchell1

Ай бұрын

​@@samudramanthan8645Thanks for your tribal response.

@samudramanthan8645

Ай бұрын

@@stevenmitchell1 Your judgmental comments fill me with terror and make me feel so unsafe!

The entire system except for the NE Corridor loses money. The government should 1) break the unions 2) sell whatever assets they have on money losing routes 3) sell the NE Corridor to private industry

@thomasgrabkowski8283

Ай бұрын

Well other than NE corridor, other routes would be unaffected by power outage. Why? Cause they run diesel rather than electric

@epicsnake21

Ай бұрын

NEC is the abbreviation for the Northeast Corridor

@counterfit5

Ай бұрын

Those are three terrible ideas

@stevenmitchell1

Ай бұрын

I guess you don't know anything about the history of private enterprise in the United States. Nearly all the train lines were privately owned in the US, until private ownership mismanaged them into government ownership. Same thing with NYC subways and NJ Transit. The LIRR was privately owned, but didn't make a profit for almost 100 years prior to its government takeover after WW II.

@tonyburzio4107

Ай бұрын

Brightline works like he says.