At a Wednesday evening event unveiling a fleet of new, high-speed Amtrak Acela trains, a Trump administration official suggested the federal government could take over Boston’s South Station, according to The Boston Globe .

The remarks by Deputy U.S. Transportation Secretary Steven Bradbury came the same day federal officials announced a takeover of Union Station in Washington, D.C.

“Here in South Boston, we need to address the cleanliness, the crime, the safety, and security of the station for the rail workers, for the passengers, because the people of Boston deserve that,” Bradbury said, according to the Globe. “All the people up and down the Northeast corridor and Americans who travel on these trains, they need and deserve beautiful rail facilities.”

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