The article highlights the critical need to restore train ridership as cities recover from the pandemic. Emphasizing that trains are far more efficient than cars in transporting people, it details how congestion pricing and improved transit can enhance urban living. Citing successful projects such as London's Elizabeth Line and Paris's Grand Paris Express, it argues that U.S. transit systems suffer from lack of funding, hindering modernization. The recent report by the Marron Institute suggests reforms for electrification and infrastructure improvements to enable U.S. trains to match European standards.
Getting people back on trains and onto transit is essential to bringing our cities back to full health post-pandemic and building beyond into the future.
The infrastructure we inherited, had we consistently upgraded and funded it like the Europeans have done with theirs, would allow many mainline U.S. cities to deliver passenger rail service that rivals what's found abroad.
Momentum - released today by the Marron Institute at New York University - is an exhaustive 154-page effort to examine the causes of this logjam and to propose a dramatic set of reforms to break it wide open.
Speeding up and expanding service is proven to grow ridership on existing routes and induce mode-change, fueling a virtuous cycle that boosts transit and our cities.
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