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Ridership statistics

Amtrak ridership stats for January 2010

 

January FY10
                       
    Ridership Ticket Revenue
          % change vs.         % change vs.  
NEC Spine FY10 FY09 Budget FY09 Budget FY10 FY09 Budget FY09 Budget
1 – Acela   228,285 224,066 216,238 +1.9 +5.6 $30,483,712 $31,271,764 $30,158,075 -2.5 +1.1
5 – Northeast Regional   512,663 517,331 482,474 -0.9 +6.3 $31,138,936 $33,148,197 $30,662,879 -6.1 +1.6
99 – Special Trains   1,430 630 2,000 +127.0 -28.5 $107,800 $144,061 $177,000 -25.2 -39.1
Subtotal   742,378 742,027 700,712 +0.0 +5.9 $61,730,448 $64,564,022 $60,997,954 -4.4 +1.2
State Supported and Other Short Distance Corridors                    
3 – Ethan Allen   3,758 3,668 3,573 +2.5 +5.2 $191,841 $191,891 $186,641 -0.0 +2.8
4 – Vermonter   6,563 6,029 5,907 +8.9 +11.1 $367,071 $342,029 $335,169 +7.3 +9.5
7 – Albany-Niagara Falls-Toronto   25,772 25,438 24,881 +1.3 +3.6 $1,462,490 $1,431,346 $1,396,982 +2.2 +4.7
9 – Downeaster   31,630 32,148 32,066 -1.6 -1.4 $442,153 $439,730 $448,508 +0.6 -1.4
12 – New Haven-Springfield   25,370 24,010 23,362 +5.7 +8.6 $677,948 $661,493 $643,483 +2.5 +5.4
14 – Keystone   94,420 89,472 88,159 +5.5 +7.1 $1,943,821 $1,797,422 $1,771,182 +8.1 +9.7
15 – Empire (NYP-ALB)   70,211 67,887 66,580 +3.4 +5.5 $2,741,130 $2,678,849 $2,621,070 +2.3 +4.6
20 – Chicago-St. Louis (Lincoln Service)   38,691 33,562 35,120 +15.3 +10.2 $866,386 $689,779 $725,663 +25.6 +19.4
21 – Hiawatha   53,621 52,609 53,288 +1.9 +0.6 $970,626 $951,401 $963,301 +2.0 +0.8
22 – Wolverine   31,182 31,207 31,884 -0.1 -2.2 $1,115,152 $1,005,130 $1,034,330 +10.9 +7.8
23 – Chicago-Carbondale (Illini/Saluki)   18,743 20,030 20,318 -6.4 -7.8 $505,450 $501,786 $509,086 +0.7 -0.7
24 – Chicago-Quincy (IL Zephyr/Carl Sandburg)   13,741 13,873 14,058 -1.0 -2.3 $312,663 $289,824 $294,024 +7.9 +6.3
29 – Heartland Flyer   4,417 3,863 3,911 +14.3 +12.9 $100,742 $84,791 $85,791 +18.8 +17.4
35 – Pacific Surfliner   194,340 195,191 196,673 -0.4 -1.2 $3,401,652 $3,223,340 $3,417,486 +5.5 -0.5
36 – Cascades   55,989 44,621 54,179 +25.5 +3.3 $1,661,682 $1,209,957 $1,488,693 +37.3 +11.6
37 – Capitol Corridor   117,860 128,684 128,366 -8.4 -8.2 $1,751,410 $1,793,791 $1,903,212 -2.4 -8.0
39 – San Joaquin   71,077 65,549 65,970 +8.4 +7.7 $2,172,277 $2,151,086 $2,272,648 +1.0 -4.4
40 – Adirondack   7,200 6,997 6,860 +2.9 +5.0 $371,357 $366,738 $359,755 +1.3 +3.2
41 – Blue Water   10,096 9,539 9,521 +5.8 +6.0 $311,468 $267,422 $266,972 +16.5 +16.7
46 – Washington-Lynchburg   7,768 – 2,960 – +162.4 $461,393 – $179,270 – +157.4
47 – Washington-Newport News   29,812 31,515 29,625 -5.4 +0.6 $1,547,134 $1,625,335 $1,543,370 -4.8 +0.2
54 – Hoosier State   2,254 1,878 1,904 +20.0 +18.4 $52,222 $40,375 $40,875 +29.3 +27.8
56 – Kansas City-St. Louis (MO River Runner)   9,996 8,390 8,253 +19.1 +21.1 $232,263 $175,980 $173,150 +32.0 +34.1
57 – Pennsylvanian   15,527 14,654 14,524 +6.0 +6.9 $622,656 $584,453 $579,333 +6.5 +7.5
65 – Pere Marquette   7,177 7,360 7,465 -2.5 -3.9 $209,179 $200,040 $202,740 +4.6 +3.2
66 – Carolinian   21,646 20,430 19,398 +6.0 +11.6 $1,143,609 $1,137,149 $1,085,053 +0.6 +5.4
67 – Piedmont   4,963 4,502 7,088 +10.2 -30.0 $82,847 $74,177 $118,861 +11.7 -30.3
74-81 – Buses   – – – – – $645,804 $466,846 $466,846 +38.3 +38.3
96 – Special Trains    3,000 3,286 3,130 -8.7 -4.2 $303,554 $410,040 $375,500 -26.0 -19.2
Subtotal   976,824 946,392 959,023 +3.2 +1.9 $26,667,983 $24,792,199 $25,488,993 +7.6 +4.6
Long Distance                    
16 – Silver Star   31,115 27,856 27,314 +11.7 +13.9 $2,321,709 $2,203,766 $2,155,129 +5.4 +7.7
18 – Cardinal   7,131 7,709 7,481 -7.5 -4.7 $418,434 $469,525 $448,615 -10.9 -6.7
19 – Silver Meteor   26,795 23,078 22,668 +16.1 +18.2 $2,738,669 $2,433,726 $2,389,605 +12.5 +14.6
25 – Empire Builder   34,258 34,508 39,929 -0.7 -14.2 $2,791,790 $3,036,406 $3,513,229 -8.1 -20.5
26 – Capitol Ltd.   15,292 14,864 14,359 +2.9 +6.5 $1,140,188 $1,245,480 $1,183,163 -8.5 -3.6
27 – California Zephyr   25,429 25,776 26,157 -1.3 -2.8 $2,450,532 $2,394,336 $2,429,336 +2.3 +0.9
28 – Southwest Chief   21,388 20,802 21,096 +2.8 +1.4 $2,366,325 $2,312,391 $2,346,491 +2.3 +0.8
30 – City of New Orleans   15,971 12,644 14,842 +26.3 +7.6 $1,202,067 $979,140 $1,143,940 +22.8 +5.1
32 – Texas Eagle   19,477 16,015 17,735 +21.6 +9.8 $1,482,884 $1,251,426 $1,389,026 +18.5 +6.8
33 – Sunset Ltd.   6,313 5,324 5,433 +18.6 +16.2 $644,739 $546,381 $558,792 +18.0 +15.4
34 – Coast Starlight   31,971 28,164 28,986 +13.5 +10.3 $2,233,297 $1,941,168 $2,018,538 +15.0 +10.6
45 – Lake Shore Ltd.   25,850 21,967 23,291 +17.7 +11.0 $1,688,927 $1,484,260 $1,656,166 +13.8 +2.0
48 – Palmetto   12,800 12,836 12,209 -0.3 +4.8 $953,569 $971,424 $933,363 -1.8 +2.2
52 – Crescent   19,308 19,317 18,709 -0.0 +3.2 $1,866,144 $1,829,996 $1,780,943 +2.0 +4.8
63 – Auto Train   20,286 19,224 19,465 +5.5 +4.2 $5,793,827 $5,983,567 $6,053,027 -3.2 -4.3
Subtotal   313,384 290,084 299,674 +8.0 +4.6 $30,093,101 $29,082,993 $29,999,364 +3.5 +0.3
                       
Amtrak Total   2,032,586 1,978,503 1,959,409 +2.7 +3.7 $118,491,531 $118,439,214 $116,486,311 +0.0 +1.7
News

Fleshing Out Fuller Road Station in Ann Arbor

From The Ann Arbor Chronicle

For Eli Cooper, the city of Ann Arbor’s transportation program manager, a project like the proposed Fuller Road Station happens “once in a lifetime” – an opportunity for the city, he says, to take a vision and make it reality in a fairly short time.

What it will take to reach that reality was the topic of a Feb. 10 public meeting on the Fuller Road Station, a joint University of Michigan/city of Ann Arbor project. Its first phase entails a parking structure with about 1,000 spaces – nearly 80% of them earmarked for UM use.

But much of the presentation by city staff and members of the design team focused on the broader goals for that site, which they hope will eventually include a train station for commuter rail.

Read more:
http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/02/15/fleshing-out-fuller-road-station/

FYI, News

Online video: Blueprint America-Beyond the Motor City

Aired on PBS, Feb. 8, 2010

Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. The film debuts nationally on PBS on February 8 at 10 pm (check local listings).

Detroit is the crucible in which the nation’s ability to move toward a modern 21st century transportation infrastructure is put to the test. The documentary shows how investments in the past — beginning with the construction of canals in the 18th century — profoundly shaped Detroit’s physical layout, population growth and economic development. Before being dubbed the Motor City, Detroit was once home to the nation’s most extensive streetcar system. In fact, it was that vast network of streetcars that carried workers to the area’s many car factories. And it was the cars made in those factories that would soon displace the streetcars in Detroit — and in every major American city.

Detroit’s engineers went on to design the nation’s first urban freeways and inspired much of America’s 20th century transportation infrastructure system — from traffic signals to gas stations — that became the envy of the word.

But over the last 30 years, much of the world has moved on, choosing faster, cleaner, more modern transportation and leaving America — and Detroit — behind. Viewers are taken on a journey beyond Detroit’s blighted urban landscape to Spain, home to one of the world’s most modern and extensive transit systems; to California, where voters recently said yes to America’s first high speed rail system; and to Washington, where Congress will soon decide whether to finally push America’s transportation into the 21st century.

Watch the video online at:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/reports/beyond-the-motor-city/overview/940/

News

OPINION: High-speed rail would get Michigan’s economy back on track

From Ann Arbor.com

Michigan rode the automobile to prosperity in the 1950s and ‘60s. But now we find ourselves falling further and further behind in the new economy. If we hope to catch up, one of the answers has to be high-speed rail.

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That is why it’s disappointing to see Michigan’s efforts toward high-speed railroad service languish, while the federal government funds similar projects elsewhere in the Midwest, as well as in states like California and Florida. 

Read more:
http://www.annarbor.com/news/opinion/high-speed-rail-would-get-michigans-economy-back-on-track/

News

Ottawa mulls buying Windsor-Detroit Ambassador Bridge

From the National Post (Canada)

Stephen Harper has instructed his ministers to explore the prospect of buying the Windsor-Detroit bridge — the busiest international border crossing in North America — from its American owner.

The Ambassador Bridge is owned by billionaire Manuel “Matty” Moroun and carries one quarter of all merchandise trade between Canada and the United States.

Lawrence Cannon, the Foreign Minister, said buying the bridge from the private sector is one option being examined. “My understanding is that the file is progressing and there are options being looked at,” he said…

…”It’s news to us,” said Bill Shreck, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Transportation. “That’s very interesting, but we haven’t been privy to any of this. And I’m sure we wouldn’t be until it’s farther along.”