Record year for Amtrak
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Amtrak announced this week that ridership was up 5.7 percent during the fiscal year that just ended compared to the year before. The rail org had a record 28,716,857 passengers.
Here are how some of the routes that pass through the Capital Region fared (rimshot):
The Empire Service gets a lot of traffic -- not just for here, but overall. In fact, it's the fifth most traveled non-Northeast Corridor route in Amtrak's system.
We're big fans of riding the train regionally -- it's our favorite way to get to NYC from Albany. Amtrak says it has a 65 percent share of the air-rail market between Washington and New York and a 52 percent share for air-rail travel between New York and Boston. The Northeast Corridor line had more than 7.1 million passengers last fiscal year.
By the way: Amtrak reports ridership is up 37 percent since FY2000.
Earlier on AOA:
+ The slow line to high-speed rail
+ The best way to get from Albany to NYC?
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