Trump Adminstration To Take Over D.C.’s Union Station
The Trump administration is ramping up its effort to fight crime and homelessness, and is now turning its efforts to federally management the administration of Union Station in Washington, D.C. Division of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy elaborated on the plan with a neighborhood information outlet on Wednesday (August 27).
NBC Information spoke with Secretary Duffy concerning the DOT’s plan, including that that is a part of President Donald Trump’s plan to scale back crime regardless of information displaying that there was much less violence within the Nation’s Capital in occasions previous.
“There’s an excessive amount of crime, there’s an excessive amount of homelessness. I feel there’s been a scarcity of deal with bringing in income from Union Station and reinvesting it,” Duffy mentioned to NBC Information.
Duffy added, “The president desires, and I need, the capital to be lovely. I feel People need their capital to be lovely, and Union Station is a key a part of that.”
Whereas it’s true that unhoused people congregated inside and round Union Station, strikes have been made to scale back gatherings, such because the removing of seating areas that have been as soon as slated for passengers awaiting Amtrak and the commuter rail programs MARC and VRE trains.
The Federal Railroad Administration, a department of DOT, has owned and operated Union Station because the Nineteen Eighties, and Amtrak owns and operates the tracks and platforms through the Washington Terminal Firm.
Amtrak and the Union Station Redevelopment Company (USRC) will work alongside the DOT to enhance the station’s cosmetics and effectivity, together with shifting unhoused people outdoors of the realm.
In a current go to to Union Station, we witnessed the Nationwide Guard troops strolling the grounds in and across the facility, with little in the way in which of any of the cited considerations.
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