Days after her state negotiated a $590 million grant implementing accord with BNSF Railway, Amtrak and federal officials, Washington state’s secretary of transportation, Paula Hammond, spelled out some benefits it will bring.
She told Associate Editor John D. Boyd the money spent on new track sidings and other improvements to add more Amtrak service should also aid freight traffic serving seaports in the Pacific Northwest.
Hammond made her remarks at a conference in Washington, D.C., of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.