CBS Evening News: “Train Travel On The Rise”

In this piece from last night’s CBS Evening News Sunday, correspondent Michelle Miller highlights the inherent advantages of train travel, and Amtrak’s ongoing funding challenges.  Amtrak President and CEO Alex Kummant says he feels Amtrak could grow ridership “between 50 and 100 percent in the next 15 years.”  This story mainly focuses on the Northeast Corridor (and cites NARP-provided on-time performance statistics for inside and outside of the Corridor).  But Amtrak services must continue to grow across the country to sustain the continuing renaissance that has made trains more widely accepted and popular than they have been in decades.  Amtrak is a national system and needs to grow more relevant and useful on a systemwide basis.

—Matthew Melzer