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...Train? Here?s where the good news starts. Amtrak says it's getting 10 percent more inquiries about tickets for the Thanksgiving period than it did a year ago, when the passenger rail service carried 567,000 people, said spokeswoman Karina Van Veen. And Greyhound Bus Lines reported a 20 percent surge in advance-purchase tickets for the Thanksgiving period and an increase in trips longer than 1,000 miles...
...open. When finally completed in 2010, the Silver Line will not only offer a one-seat ride from Dudley Square to Logan for over 60,000 riders a day, but it will also provide easy transfers to the Orange, Green and Red lines and connections to commuter rail and Amtrak at South Station. The Silver Line, which will operate up to 30 trips per hour, will feature state-of-the-art technology such as the Intelligent Transportation System which will receive satellite-transmitted, Global Positioning System data to track vehicles along the route, and smart kiosks that provide you with...
South Station was evacuated on Saturday for an hour after an official spotted a pile of white powder near an Amtrak ticket counter. Fire and police officials in HAZMAT suits determined the powder to be laundry detergent...
...well-thought-out partnership could be a smart way to weather this storm and develop new markets that will continue to pay off in better days. Amtrak has dozens of requests from hotels and travel agents for promotion and package trips, particularly in the Northeast corridor...
...them on par with a company with full-time employees. The MBTA’s commuter rail schedule is within weeks of its debut. Seattle transportation will probably soon succomb to the ShuttleGirl charm too. And in a characteristic show of humanitarian aid, they are donating their services to Amtrak, which has experienced huge increases in ridership since Sept. 11. “There are so many times when you feel you can’t do anything,” Karamchandani says, referring to the attacks. ShuttleGirl, though, rarely feels that...