Amtrak considers building a tunnel beneath Long Island Sound for high-speed trains
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U of Penn’s route proposal would save Amtrak $51 billion off their original plans and includes financing ideas, an issue Amtrak has been wary to address in planning high-speed routes for the Northeast.
As Amtrak studies how to bring bullet trains to its frantically busy Northeast Corridor, one design team is suggesting a radically new route requiring a roughly 18-mile-long tunnel beneath Long Island
