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Amtrak 5 year service plan
Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, July 14, 2017 7:29 PM

Have not examined but others recommend it at rather transparent because of Moorman ?

https://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/897/154/Amtrak-Five-Year-Service-Plans-FY17-FY21.pdf

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, July 14, 2017 9:33 PM

One very glaring stat in the report.  First time riders on the NEC regionals is 21% and separate Acela riderships 32%.  That was a surprise as thought most riders would be returns.Now that seems to be a very high number.  How many are those people are returning ?  Ad not returning ? Is it because of lack of capacity ?

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Posted by ATSFGuy on Thursday, July 20, 2017 8:10 PM

I think this is Amtrak's plan on what to do with the railroad for the next 5 years.

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Posted by schlimm on Thursday, July 20, 2017 9:11 PM

blue streak 1

One very glaring stat in the report.  First time riders on the NEC regionals is 21% and separate Acela riderships 32%.  That was a surprise as thought most riders would be returns.Now that seems to be a very high number.  How many are those people are returning ?  Ad not returning ? Is it because of lack of capacity ?

 

Therefore, 79% of passengers on NEC Regionals are return riders; 68% of Acela's are.  Last I looked that means "most riders."

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