This is monumental in Wisconsin politics. Tells you just how bad the environment is for Republicans. She’s also likely announcing this early to give whatever eventual republican candidate a fighting chance to build a campaign.

As much as I am a fan of the bi-level cars, for simplicities sake I’m behind this decision. Also, for the fact that we just need to finally get something started.

Those Cascades Airo sets sure do look nice.

Incoming quotes from Mike Johnson and every other Republican saying they haven’t seen the post.

Pretty cool visualization of a day of Metra operations in the Chicago area. Certainly looks more frequent than I would have thought, although evenings and weekends probably aren’t great.

Amtrak says a small number of the horizon cars are being repaired and should return to service in 2026. REALLY hoping those go back on Borealis and there’s enough to return to the original consist/capacity.

Comments like this from a FORMER governor prove why the citizens of the state were correct in booting you from office. Scott Walker calls downtown Madison Amtrak proposal a 'dumb idea' www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

Borealis is suffering immensely from this problem. If you live in Wisconsin vote for pro-rail candidates in the legislature in 2026 and encourage them to include funding in the next budget cycle for additional rolling stock. A $100 million+ investment is sorely needed in Wisconsin.

Kind of disappointing that Madison eliminated a size-able chunk of the center running lanes for side running lanes in the North-South BRT.

Came across this nugget about adding a 3rd daily round trip. I’m assuming they can do this with existing equipment? If not I’d be delighted to see the big magic hat they are pulling new equipment from and ask if we can pull some out for Borealis.

Rebecca Bradley is big mad right about now cuz she didn’t get nominated.

I suspect this means Kwik Trip will get its first real competition from another gas station. Deforest is getting most of the money they needed to upgrade the interchange for a Buc-ees. I still think Buc-ees should be paying for the whole thing.

Good news for Madison’s North-South BRT project. Looks like US DOT will probably award it funding.

What was initially planned as 6 round trips back in 2010, then 4 RT at the start of Corridor ID and now just 2 if Amtrak has its way is exactly how you kill potential high ridership. Hopefully WISDOT sticks with 4RT. wisarp.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/a...

While the current administration is completely at fault for this chaos, it raises the larger frustration of why it takes so damn long to do any sort of infrastructure projects in the US and as a result are at the whims of shifting political changes. wisarp.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/f...

Happy 1st birthday #AmtrakBorealis

Bus ridership in the Madison area surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time this April. Ridership on Metro Transit last month hit more than 1.3 million, the highest recorded that month in nearly a decade. @liamberan.bsky.social reports: isthmus.com/news/news/me...

Tick tock, tick tock, you’re next Becky.

When dems take the house in ‘26, Jeffries should kick out Hand Job Boebert and Marginal Taylor Greene when they start flapping their jaws during the SOTU.

Does anyone know what the actual infrastructure requirements are for class 5 tracks that support 90mph passenger service?

Amtraks Nov performance report came out. Borealis (like most state routes) lost money. It has a load factor comparable to NER trains that make money. Are ticket prices on NER REALLY just that much more expensive??

Donald Trump is now a president in name only. A PINO. A small little PINO.

Robin Vos wants to mirror Elon Musk's DOGE committee in Wisconsin | Government | captimes.com Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣 Good luck with that, popcorn shart.

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