Traffic on Amtrak’s Piedmont service between Charlotte and Raleigh grew faster in the recently ended fiscal year than any other service in the Amtrak system, the train operator says.
The Piedmont line makes two round trips between the Queen City and Raleigh each day, making stops in Cary, Durham, Burlington and Greensboro. The service carried nearly 163,000 riders in the 12 months through Sept. 30, up 16 percent from fiscal 2011.
Ridership on the parallel Carolinian service, which connects Charlotte and Raleigh with New York, shrank 0.3 percent, to 306,000 passengers in fiscal 2012.
Amtrak served a total of 31.2 million passengers, 3.5 percent more than in fiscal 2011. Its revenue grew 6.8 percent to $2.02 billion.
(Charlotte Business Journal)
Chris Bagley, Staff Writer
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 2:44pm EDT
