TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD Information 13) – Tucked absent in the bipartisan infrastructure bill working its way as a result of Congress, is $66 billion for Amtrak.

The money would be employed to upgrade keep track of, passenger support and the trains by themselves, together with introducing a series of new routes.

One of these routes will be, if the monthly bill receives as a result of Congress and lands on President Biden’s desk, Tucson to Phoenix a few times a working day.

There will be an further every day route from Tucson to Los Angeles.

“There has not been passenger rail provider in Tucson, from Tucson to Phoenix, considering the fact that the 1990s,” explained Tucson Mayor Regina Romero.

Which is why Mayor Romero and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego penned a letter to Congress urging its customers to move the bipartisan monthly bill.

Not only is the bill bipartisan, but the letter is as well, which includes the names and signatures of each mayor in Pima County, Republican and Democrat.

“We will need to start out wondering about techniques to spend in passenger rail and other varieties of transit solutions not just expansion of freeways,” Romero stated.

A examine finished by the Arizona Office of Transportation done in 2015 displays the commute from Tucson to Phoenix in 2010 took 113 minutes. By 2035, even with Interstate 10 expanded to eight lanes, it will take 142 minutes. And by 2050, with all the advancement, it is approximated to consider 180 minutes,