General Accounting Office Reports Amtrak Numbers
The General Accounting Office says Amtrak is successfully competing with airplanes on shorter routes.
"In the 46 states [Amtrak] served, 34 had fewer than 1,000 passengers a day...in 12 states there were fewer than 100 passengers a day...Amtrak was much more successful on shorter routes where it could compete more effectively with airplanes... Amtrak carries about 64,000 passengers a day, Ms. Hecker said, but outside California and the Washington-New York-Boston corridor, that number is only about 20,000. In contrast, interstate buses carry nearly 1 million peop"le a day and the airlines carry about 1.8 million."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
Published on Friday, April 12, 2002 in
Topics
- More Evidence That New Housing Lowers Rents (Maybe)
- Another Approach to Affordable Housing
- Explained: The Common Look of the Contemporary Mid-Rise Apartment Building
- Seeing the Urban Forest for the Trees
- More Fallout From Downsizing California High-Speed Rail
- Sale of Illinois Tollway Considered to Pay Pension Debt
- Two Cities That Reduced Driving Over a Decade
- Obama Presidential Center Dealt Legal Setback
- Oregon to Consider New Densities for Transit Adjacent Neighborhoods
- Major Street Redesign Coming to Pittsburgh's Historic Strip District
- Voters to Decide the Legal Status of Lake Erie
- Cities' Role in Climate Governance and Global Policy: A Dispatch from the Urban20
- Report: Sprawl Affecting Farmers in Greater Washington Region
- The Potential of Shuttles Now That Chariot Is No More
- Contest: Design a Logo for New York's Privately-Owned Public Spaces
- The Artist of the Planning Department
- Coal, a Campaign Promise Unfulfilled
- Friday Fun: Oscars-Nominated Films Featuring Place in a Starring Role
- Controversy Erupts Over Sidewalk Labs Development Plans in Toronto
- When Analyzing Suburbs, Definitions Matter
