Amtrak Cascades train sees record ridership in Oregon in March
https://www.klcc.org/transportation/2024-05-01/amtrak-cascades-train-sees-record-ridership-in-oregon-in-march
Amtrak has a page for the route and is advertising it on Facebook.
https://www.amtrak.com/routes/borealis-train.html
As usual, it's difficult to locate anything resembling an actual timetable on the Amtrak website. The "Borealis" pulls up nothing at the moment on the Schedule page.
A truck driver who ignored height limits for I-95 struck a railroad bridge on I-95 last night, causing damage to the bridge that carries freight and NJT's Atlantic City line (near the Delaware River).
The freeway is shut down as well as rail traffic.
NJT has established a "bus bridge" between...
Judging from the Amtrak Alerts twitter feed, the "south of Kelso" slide zone has struck again. This post was followed by several others referring to the cancellation of various Cascades and CS trains, which will presumably last until Sunday afternoon.
That's fair, though I suppose the people living along the SE side of Baltimore would also appreciate fewer hazmats.
Anyhow, my suggestion to NOT rebuild the bridge is complete fancy, of course. The "we WILL rebuild" rhetoric was unleashed even before the sun came up Tuesday morning. No...
Hot take: There will not be traffic nightmares as the result of this bridge collapse. As jis alludes, there is virtually no reason for thru-travelers to use the Key Bridge. I lived in SE Penna for years and often traveled through the Balt/DC area to get to NoVa, and while I used the tunnels...
OK, this is probably a more general operational question than a Cascades-specific question, but it involves a Cascades train so I'll post it here. Today's southbound 505 had some mechanical issue and arrived in Eugene 2 1/2 hours late at 4:20 p.m. This train becomes the northbound 508, which is...
I won't dispute that there's better service to NYC, but I can find at least three daily bus departures from Allentown to Philly (not one).
They all seem to depart from the same place: the downtown transit center, which I wouldn't call "an obscure bus stop."
Obligatory train content: One of...
Seems like a good (albeit pricey) project.
It does seem like a potentially confusing situation in terms of potentially having two types of tickets to the EWR station. My guess is they will solve this by simply charging everyone the AirTrain fee regardless of whether one intends to use the...
There is still a departure that leaves just after 8 p.m. and stops only in Corvallis and Eugene. Since I was headed for Salem, it wasn't an option for me (and anyhow, I wanted to leave ASAP). Seems weird that they offer three Portland-Eugene departures daily, but two of them occur within 45...
Since there was some bus discussion upthread, thought I'd share my experience from yesterday. I arrived into PDX (airport) at 5:20 p.m. and needed to get to Salem. One might think that light rail-->Amtrak would be a good option, but no. By the time I de-planed and made it to the MAX station, it...