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Ridership on Amtrak Cascades Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels
Cascades ridership has in fact experienced a return. Our two post-pandemic trains are starting to perform like two pre-pandemic trains. It follows that ridership will not return to significantly higher levels until service is returned to former levels - former service being 14 trains a day or more given the reopening of the Point Defiance bypass....
AAWA's 2021 Legislative Program
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Save our Salmon: Ride the Train
How passenger rail is integral to our environmental goals and can help equitably rebuild our economy...
Looking Down the Tracks: the State of Washington's Trains in 2021
A new year is upon us, and AAWA is already off to a busy start! Here is our beginning-of-year update for 2021. Service has been drastically curtailed across the Pacific Northwest. Amtrak Cascades was cut from 4 Seattle-Portland, 2 Portland-Eugene, and 2 Seattle-Vancouver, BC daily round trips to just one daily Seattle-Eugene round trip, with all Cascades trains north of Seattle suspended....
East-West Cascades Passenger Service: Considerations beyond the STEER Study
The significant factors that were not considered in the STEER study, yet should be considered in evaluating the overall costs and benefits of the East-West service....
How Passenger Rail Can Hasten Economic Recovery and Environmental Goals
Existing passenger rail equipment and infrastructure can be used to speed our state’s economic recovery, while furthering our environmental goals, by restarting and enhancing Amtrak Cascades service....
Advocates Call for Amtrak Expansion
Passenger rail advocacy group All Aboard Washington has called upon the State Legislature to provide funding to the Washington State Department of Transportation to implement existing plans for an expanded statewide passenger rail network. Restoring the full Amtrak Cascades passenger train schedule, and expanding Cascades service to Central and Eastern Washington, are critical components of statewide economic recovery and development....
Passenger Rail Advocates Call for Prompt Restoration of Amtrak Cascades Service
Passenger rail advocacy group All Aboard Washington (AAWA) has called for the State Legislature to immediately direct the Washington State Department of Transportation to implement the Legislature’s plans for a statewide passenger rail network, and to provide the funds needed for this implementation....
AAWA Welcomes Four New Board Directors
At its 2020 general membership meeting this past Saturday, November 14th, All Aboard Washington welcomed its four newest directors to the board: Samantha Dana, Pete Lewis, Adán Espino Jr., and Bob Krebs....
It's All About Return on Investment
All Aboard Washington's Luis Moscoso shared introductory remarks with the Legislature's Statewide Transportation Needs Assessment Advisory Panel on Wednesday, August 19....