The Washington Post’s Ben Pershing reports that Amtrak advocates love Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden as Democratic VP candidate. Besides it being noted in every single Biden bio that he rides Amtrak home to his family in Delaware every night, Biden’s also the co-sponsor for the 2007 bill that re-authorizes the public-private Amtrack system. And Biden’s son, the lobbyist Hunter Biden, is vice chairman of Amtrak’s board of directors.

Biden’s push for increased rail service has spanned his career, earning him the "Champion of the Rails" award from Amtrak in 2001. Between Biden, a Democratic-controlled Congress that tends to favor transit funding and the gas crisis, now may finally be the political moment for federal public transit to gain traction.-MB

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