In support, State Sen. Marko Liias said the Puget Sound region is expanding by tens of thousands of people a year.
“If you look at Amtrak right away, there are areas where you can expand, but more importantly, the technology is changing where you can run multiple trains and you can phase it,” Barkis told KIRO Newsradio. “By changing grade crossings, that’s where the cars cross over the tracks, putting that infrastructure in place there. You would then have the ability to run this. You’re only talking about anywhere from six to eight trains a day.
“I totally support improving Amtrak and we want to get back to hourly daylight service like we had before the pandemic to Portland and Vancouver,” Liias said. “The fact of the matter though, is to meet the future growth in the region. Amtrak alone is not going to get us there. We need more. We need more air. We need more highways. We ignore rail capacity.
In a similar conundrum, transportation experts are trying to locate where the bullet train tracks would live. But once a plan is in place and finalized, that’s when Barkis believes the lawsuits will ensue. “So let’s think about what’s going to be needed to put this high-speed rail down,” Barkis continued. “Where are we going to do this? The minute that line hits a map, and people see where this thing is going to go, you’ll have every kind of group you can imagine forming an opposition, and you’ll have litigation and lawsuits, just like in California.”
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