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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden Gets an Amtrak Station Named After Him
2011-03-15
News before it happens!
On March 19, state, local and congressional representatives will join Amtrak officials to reopen the recently renovated Amtrak station in Wilmington, Del.
The facility will be renamed the Joseph P. Biden Jr. Railroad Station iin honor of Vice President Joe Biden, who regularly used the station to travel between Delaware and Washington, D.C., during his 36-year tenure as a U.S. senator.

The $37.7 million renovation, which took nearly two years to complete, was funded with $5.7 million from Amtrak, $20 million in federal stimulus dollars, $2 million from the Delaware Department of Transportation and $10 million in funds through SAFETEA-LU and other federal appropriations bills.

Posted by:Bobby

#15  And, as part as the dedication ceremonies, the Old Crow Medicine show will sing "New Virginia Creeper" song for duh People™.

Posted by: Alaska Paul   2011-03-15 20:49  

#14  Whoo! Whoo!... chuggachuggachugga...
Posted by: Slow Joe   2011-03-15 19:47  

#13  Surely 37 MILLION in taxpayers money wasn't spent for the benefit of just 1,000ish local house-owners (who'll reap any benefit through higher house prices).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-03-15 19:21  

#12  Ride'n that train
High on ice cream
Casey Joe you better,
watch your feet.

Plugs on the head
Thumb in behind
And that commotion,
37 million pork-rinds
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-03-15 18:54  

#11  And Ill raise you what they should name the lunch cart at the depot: Sloppy Joes.
Posted by: Fi   2011-03-15 18:42  

#10  The Slo Joe AMTRAK Depot?
Posted by: GK   2011-03-15 18:39  

#9  The new name...Biden International Airport.
Posted by: tu3031   2011-03-15 16:18  

#8  Barack Hussein Obama Memorial Men's Room...
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-03-15 16:00  

#7  About 1900 boardings or de-boardings per day at the station; probably about 1000 people since most users take round trips and probably of the 1000, on any day, about 800 of them are frequent users.

It will be an image that is burned into their minds.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2011-03-15 15:55  

#6  I'm not sure about having to be dead. How many public projects in West Virginia are named after the late Klansman (and U.S. Senator BTW) Robert Byrd?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-03-15 15:48  

#5  As a long-time rail buff and model railroader with fond childhood memories of B&O sleeping cars, I am outraged. No railroad station deserves to be insulted this way.
Posted by: Mike   2011-03-15 15:16  

#4  used to be you had to be actually dead, not just brain-dead, to get a building named after you
Posted by: Frank G   2011-03-15 15:03  

#3  It's the slow train to nowhere.
Posted by: Fester Javith5393   2011-03-15 11:48  

#2  Biden and AmTrak. Hoo-Boy, where to begin........
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2011-03-15 11:31  

#1  And where you can't Go because of the TSA.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-03-15 11:24  

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