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[quote user="oltmannd"] [quote user="Bonas"] Stop Comparing Amtrak ridership with automobiles. You have to use % of "Common Carriers" that charge a fare for a seat  like the Airlines and Greyhound. <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] Okay. Passenger miles for 2010 (<a href="http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_40.html">http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_40.html</a>) AIr - 564,790 Bus (non transit) - 292,319 Amtrak - 6,470 Amtrak has 0.8% market share of  all common carriers".  But, to be fair, for 75% of Amtrak's riders, what do you think their #2 choice to "get there" would have been?  (remember, 75% of Amtrak riders are on the NEC and other corridors).  [/quote] During FY12 Amtrak's long distance trains carried 15.2 per cent of the system's passengers.  Passengers booking sleeping car space accounted for 14.5 per cent of the long distance passengers and 2.2 per cent of system passengers. Amtrak claims that it has more than 75 per cent of the end point to end point NYC to Washington, D.C. passengers compared to commercial air.  I wondered whether the number was truly end point to end point, so I wrote a letter to Mr. Boardman for clarification.  His assistant replied that it is indeed true.
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