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End of FY18 performance report with the route level results is finally out on website. As expected there is a decrease for LD from last year, however Amtrak also admitted in the earlier public end of year report that some of the decline in LD ridership this year can be attributed to cancelled and truncated trains due to a large amount of natural/weather events. Enough of these for a once a day train won't take long to depress ridership over the previous year. And not all LD trains declined - ridership was higher this year than last on the California Zephyr, and amazingly the Crescent as well despite its abysmal OTP. The report for this year annoyingly doesn't have seat and passenger miles listed which makes it harder to make a direct comparison to last year.
The Capitol Limited has a decent drop. Can one make an argument that could be attributed to "contemporary food?" Lake shore dropped a decent amount too, but it is harder to make a fair comparison there as it also didn't serve Penn for the summer. Will need to wait until next year to do a fair comparison for Lake Shore.
URL: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/monthlyperformancereports/2018/Amtrak-Monthly-Performance-Report-September-2018.pdf
The Capitol Limited has a decent drop. Can one make an argument that could be attributed to "contemporary food?" Lake shore dropped a decent amount too, but it is harder to make a fair comparison there as it also didn't serve Penn for the summer. Will need to wait until next year to do a fair comparison for Lake Shore.
URL: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/monthlyperformancereports/2018/Amtrak-Monthly-Performance-Report-September-2018.pdf
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