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...stations won't see the Amtrak's silver trains, officials said. Amtrak has always depended heavily on federal subsidies -- $952 million this year -- but has faced mounting pressure to reduce them. Amtrak lost $76.2 million in fiscal 1994, the fifth straight year it has been in the red. Ridership fell about 300,000 from 1993. More cuts will be announced next year...
...what would have been unthinkable in their car-worship culture -- they flocked onto commuter trains. Metrolink, the city's embryonic light-rail system, reported a tripling of morning passengers, from 10,000 to 30,000, on its four lines, and last week managed to retain 70% of the new ridership even after freeway detours began to reopen. The most popular by far was the 40-mile ride north to Santa Clarita, a new bedroom community cut off by the fractured Golden State Freeway; its daily ridership jumped from...
Postquake ridership leaps from hundreds to thousands...
...Network news and the commuter state has sold the ridership of the T to a third party," Hamer said. "It's just another example of how public and private interests are in conflict...
Towne said that statistics kept by the shuttle bus service indicate that ridership drops sharply after 11 p.m. But a security survey conducted last April showed that large numbers of students continue to travel between houses and libraries until 3 a.m., she said. Most of these students use the escort service or walk...