Healthy Amtrak Hungry for More Funding

Tony Coscia knows just how important a healthy Amtrak system is to New Jersey’s economy — and so does just about everyone else who’s paying attention these days.

Paying for investments in the system is another matter altogether.

“It would be great if everyone agreed that we should put substantial levels of capital into building the infrastructure,” said Coscia, the New Brunswick attorney who chairs Amtrak’s board of directors. “But we realize we’re going to have to prove a lot to people.”