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 cut back crime regardless of knowledge exhibiting 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 feel there’s been a scarcity of give attention to 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 feel 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 have been made to cut back gatherings, such because the removing of seating areas that have 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 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 exterior of the world.
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 best way of any of the cited issues.
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