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<p>[quote user="rcdrye"]</p> <p>NEC load factor includes all stations from Boston to Washington. Anyone who has ridden an Acela or Regional train all the way from Boston to Washington knows full well that the train load goes way up in New York. Philadelphia-Baltimore is very near, if not at, the peak of traffic density on the corridor.</p> <p>One of the reasons for the ride quality change in the last 30 years is that allowed speeds for regional trains are quite a bit higher. A ride on the 1980s/1990s Metroliner would feel about like a regional today. [/quote]</p> <p>Anyone who has ridden a train only knows what she sees, usually confined to the car that she is ridding in, on the day that she is traveling. Her experience is not indicative or predictive of the days that she is not on the train. A personal experience is not a statistical sample and, therefore, cannot be projected to the population, i.e. all riders on that train, all trains, etc., for a period as a whole. </p> <p>The only folks who can tell us the load factors on the NEC, or any other train for that matter, are persons with access to Amtrak's rider database(s). I have filed an FOIA request to get it. If they will turn the data loose, I'll bet that it will take me a year or more to get it.</p>
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