probablyadragon asked:

OK a more hinged question this time I promise: My parents have settled back down in their hometown of Allentown PA, and I know it's been since their childhood that Atown had a train station(it's just buses last I checked). I heard tell that an infrastructure bill was planning to bring a line to NYC back, but that was over two years ago. Any news since then?

The Lehigh Valley Planning Commission and PennDot did a study on the viability of the route which finished in May. Now we are waiting for the release of the study this October and the announcement of funding from the Feds in September. If both are favorable the work to make the route happen could begin