The US has over 160,000 miles of rail. That $6B is just $37,500 per mile and doesn’t take into account money needed to update/upgrade stations and crossings.
100 years of neglect, and finally a very welcome but woefully inadequate $6B. We need many times that just to catch up on maintenence for existing slow rail, much less upgrade to handle higher soeeds
The US has over 160,000 miles of rail. That $6B is just $37,500 per mile and doesn’t take into account money needed to update/upgrade stations and crossings.
So, the word you want to use is insufficient. That is not the same as neglecting.
100 years of neglect, and finally a very welcome but woefully inadequate $6B. We need many times that just to catch up on maintenence for existing slow rail, much less upgrade to handle higher soeeds
If you were to feed your cat a tiny fraction of the food it needs, that’s neglect.
No, neglecting sounds extremely reasonable - the system has been consistently under invested into.