AMTRAK didn’t “set up” a high speed passenger route. AMTRAK is contracted to operate the trains. The equipment and road beds are property of Washington State. They are the ones that contracted for the construction of the new bypass route.
Who paid for the project? Federal taxpayers? State, local?
O.K., I get the distinction. But look at the basic situation. This route was touted as a new High Speed route between Washington and Oregon cities, but first crack out of the box, they left one or more spots on the route where top safe speed is 35 mph. Japan and France must be ROFLTAO.