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Sanford Auto Train to get new station
Topic Started: March 20 2009, 05:41 AM (166 Views)
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SANFORD, Fla. -- The $1.3 billion for Amtrak in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act recently approved by Congress includes construction of a new station for the Auto Train in Sanford.

Vice President Joe Biden announced the Amtrak spending today at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

"For too long, we haven't made the investments we needed to make Amtrak as safe, as reliable, as secure as it can be,'' Biden said. "That ends now.''

Amtrak will get $10.5 million to build a new station for the southern terminus of the Auto Train in Sanford. The Auto Train, one of Amtrak's best performing long-distance services and one of the nation's most innovative forms of intermodal transportation, carries passengers with their private automobiles non-stop betwen Lorton, Va., and Sanford.

The new station will replace temporary facilities that have been in place since the destruction of much of the previous station by hurricanes in 2005.

(The preceding report by John Bozzo appeared on the Web site blogs.news-journalonline.com on March 19, 2009.)
March 19, 2009
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