Amtrak Ticket Agency

[DaveBr]

Going on 6 years now,the city of Glendale,Calif.refurbished the train station
here in Glendale.It looks very beautiful but it just sits there empty without any
Amtrak ticket agency.The city and Amtrak must have had some kind of argument because the city continously says they are waiting for Amtrak.Well
it's been 6 years now and no one knows nothing.Anyone know the reason
they want to make a beautiful station into a ghost town?//Thanks..DaveBr.
Glendale,Ca.[?]

[espeefoamer]

Amtrak's theme song was sung by the scarecrow in the Wizard of OZ."If I only had a brain..."

[Anonymous]

Is the station getting used, or is it all closed up?
Do the trains stop there?

Up here in Canada a lot of Via stations are just used as stops now, Via perfers people to buy their tickets over the phone or the internet.

Just costs to much to hire a person to sit there, I suppose.

[UPTRAIN]

There are only staffed stations at major terminals like STL and NLR...here...nobody there except the passengers (and vandals...the punks).

[Anonymous]

Most people buy their tickets off the internet, from the toll free number, or through a travel agent, even in the large cities Amtrak does man.... Therefore, it isn't cost effective to man every depot in the country.... Nevetheless, Amtrak will stop at these whistle stops to embark and disembark passengers.....

In most of America an Amtrak manned station is no more than a hundred miles away, but of course the Rocky Mountain area of the west will be the exception. You'll notice that Greyhound is doing the same.....

[mudchicken]

IF the town fathers built/ modernized the depot without an agreement in place with Amtrak, then that structure will continue to sit empty....Shame on the town boobs ("Build it and they will come" only works with baseball in Iowa)....Could it be that Glendale's Transportation planners are too much highway and airport oriented and clueless in the railroad disciplines? (if so, they are not alone in CA)

Glendale is too close to LAUPT for a ticket agent plus you have MetroLink up there. What is their relationship to MetroLink, CalTrans and SCRTA like? You don't just open up a station on a commuter/passenger line on a lark. Takes lots of serious planning and careful coordination.

[DaveBr]

Thanks for any and all the information.The refurbished station is just like the
5 councilman,getting old and fading away..They put a modern ticket machine way down the line for amtrak at the Metrolink entrance,another stupid move. Thanks,I heard they are planning to do the same thing at San Bernardino station...