Passenger Trains > Illiniois Ridership tops 1 million mark

"Amtrak ridership topped 1 million passengers in the last year for the first time in at least three decades on routes between Chicago and Downstate cities, the railroad reported Monday.

In addition, Amtrak trains between Chicago and Milwaukee carried about 750,000 riders, a 25 percent increase from a year earlier."

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"What stands between us and even higher numbers are infrastructure improvements on the routes and the need for more rail equipment," Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-amtrak-14-oct14,0,442588.story

That's great news, amazingly in Missouri, STL to KC trains had a 30% increase in ridership over last year despite chronic tardiness by UP.

FriscoGary Wrote:
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> That's great news, amazingly in Missouri, STL to
> KC trains had a 30% increase in ridership over
> last year despite chronic tardiness by UP.
Well, we all know that those 2 new proposed sidings will fix all those tardiness problems!