Amtrak’s return to the Gulf Coast continues to be a question with very few answers to it. 🛤️ Are you hopeful for a New Orleans to Mobile rail route?
on Monday, said he has plenty of unanswered questions over the city’s role in upkeep and maintenance of a future train stop. He also said he’s unsure about the specific resolutions the Alabama State Port Authority might have reached with Amtrak from last year’s confidentiality agreement before the U.S. Surface Transportation Board .
Mobile City Councilman Ben Reynolds speaks during the Mobile City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at Government Plaza in Mobile, Ala. Seated next to him is Mobile City Councilman Cory Penn. . “A lot of these European travel markets, they like rail,” Clark said. “A lot of Europeans do fly into the New Orleans airport, United Kingdom and into Atlanta and a lot of Atlantans come down here. They might visit Mobile and then take the rail over to the New Orleans airport until ours is built .”
Ross said he doesn’t want the public to think that Mobile is the reason why the route has not restarted yet, adding “I want to make sure no one gets the idea that neither Amtrak nor Mobile are dragging their feet. I haven’t heard that.”
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