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Old Posted Feb 19, 2009, 5:48 PM
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Amtrak said Cascades’ traffic set record in ’08

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Amtrak said Cascades’ traffic set record in ’08

Portland Business Journal

More people rode the Amtrak Cascades train service last year than any other year in the Cascade’s 10-year history, Amtrak officials said.

Last year, 774,421 people were carried by the train, up 14.4 percent from 2007, which was the service’s second most popular year.

Amtrak officials attributed part of the increase to sky-high gasoline prices in summer 2008. The train travels 310 miles between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Eugene, with a one-way trip between those two cities taking around 12 hours, according to an Amtrak schedule. Seattle is the most heavily used station along the route, Amtrak said, with Portland, the second most popular.

According to Amtrak, the Cascades route is the seventh most heavily traveled corridor in the country.
I wonder how much this would grow if there was a second train.
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