Even with lingering doubts about the Mobile City Council’s willingness to subsidize Amtrak, City Attorney Ricardo Woods said Tuesday that a funding agreement and ground lease allowing for a platform downtown are “pretty close.”
Mobile City Attorney Ricardo Woods said on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, that the city administration is getting close to presenting a funding agreement and ground lease allowing for Amtrak service to the City Council.) - Even with lingering doubts about the City Council’s willingness to subsidize Amtrak, City Attorney Ricardo Woods said Tuesday that a funding agreement and ground lease allowing for a platform downtown are “pretty close.
City Councilman Ben Reynolds, who has been a vocal opponent of using local tax funds to pay for the service between Mobile and New Orleans, asked for an update. Speaking at the agenda-setting session before the weekly public council meeting, Reynolds said he and Amtrak lawyers have traded drafts in recent days.
“Those documents are pretty close to coming to the council, probably closer than they’ve been in weeks,” he said. “And had conversations with Amtrak as late as yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock, talking about the changes that we need and what particular changes the city would need and what particular clause the city was going to need and what the funding would look like. So we’re pretty close to putting a draft before you.
Woods did not detail the specific changes that the city had requested. But Mayor Sandy Stimpson in the past has sought to prohibit Amtrak from operating north of the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center. The current plan is for a train platform to be constructed on the south of the convention center on city-owned land where a parking lot now sits. Amtrak documentsfor trains to leave the station each day at 6:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. stopping in four Mississippi cities along the Gulf Coast before arriving in New Orleans. Trains leaving New Orleans would arrive at 11:18 a.m. and 9:14 p.m.over three years. Until recently, all of that was to fall on the city of Mobile.
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