Amtrak and California
Amtrak and the State of California run lines between the major cities in the state, and they have become more popular than ever. The article notes that they have attributed some of this to the higher price of gas, and I don't doubt it. Gasoline prices in California are often higher than even the rest of the nation.
"We now have the same frequency of trains as Amtrak runs on the Northeast Corridor between Boston and New York," he said, noting that when the line was created in 1991 it had three roundtrips and carried 270,000 passengers a year. Today it has 16 roundtrips and carries nearly 1.3 million passengers.
That growth has pushed the Capitol Corridor to Amtrak's third-busiest line, after the Northeast Corridor and Pacific Surfliner, Bronte said. The San Joaquins line is in fifth place, but may soon move up, he added. "Another big thing people don't realize is that 20 percent of all the riders on the entire Amtrak system are in California," Skoropowski said. "Twenty years ago, we weren't even on the radar screen."
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