Trump Administration To Take Over DC’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 (Aug. 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 knowledge displaying that there was much less violence within the Nation’s Capital in instances previous.

“There’s an excessive amount of crime, there’s an excessive amount of homelessness. I believe there’s been an absence of deal with bringing in income from Union Station and reinvesting it,” Duffy stated to NBC Information.

Duffy added, “The president desires, and I need, the capital to be stunning. I believe Individuals need their capital to be stunning, and Union Station is a key a part of that.”

Whereas it’s true that unhoused people congregated inside and round Union Station, strikes had been made to scale back gatherings, such because the elimination of seating areas that had been as soon as slated for passengers awaiting Amtrak and the commuter rail techniques MARC and VRE trains.

The Federal Railroad Administration, a department of DOT, has owned and operated Union Station for the reason that Eighties, and Amtrak owns and operates the tracks and platforms by way of 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 transferring unhoused people outdoors of the world.

In a latest 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 issues.

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