All Aboard: Why Now Is The Time For Federal Investment In Railroads

All Aboard: Why Now Is The Time For Federal Investment In Railroads: Amtrak served a record 31.2 million customers in 2012, a 55 percent increase since 1997 that makes it America’s fastest-growing method of transportation, according to a new study from the Brookings-Rockefeller Project on State and Metropolitan Innovation. Nearly all of the growth took place on Amtrak’s shorter routes, especially in the Northeast Corridor that connects [...]/p