Buttigieg In Mobile For Amtrak Groundbreaking

On October 22, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg; Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose; and representatives from Amtrak, CSX and the Southern Rail Commission joined Mayor Sandy Stimpson in Downtown Mobile for a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of the Gulf Coast Corridor Improvement project. Funded in part by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the project will restore Amtrak service from New Orleans to Mobile, a corridor that has not had passenger service since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. As part of the project, CSX will add a layover track so passenger trains do not impact freight operations at the Port of Mobile. Amtrak will also build a new passenger platform on the site of its legacy platform at Cooper Riverside Park on the downtown waterfront. Once the project is complete, Amtrak’s passenger line will connect coastal communities in three states with daily stops in New Orleans, Gulfport, Bay St. Louis, Pascagoula, Biloxi and Mobile.