{"id":97167851,"date":"2010-04-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/amtrak-ridership-on-pace-to-set-new-record\/"},"modified":"2010-04-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:00:00","slug":"amtrak-ridership-on-pace-to-set-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/amtrak-ridership-on-pace-to-set-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak Ridership on Pace to Set New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inside-copy\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<strong>Amtrak breaks ridership record<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\nAmtrak is reporting that ridership increased by 4.3% with a record breaking 13.6 million<br \/>\npassengers during the first six months of their fiscal 2010 year.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\nThis tops 2008 when 13.5 million people road the rails in the first half of fiscal 2008.&nbsp; Amtrak&#39;s CEO Joseph Boardman explained that high fueld costs and a turnaround in the economic picture as two of the main reasons for the ridership increase.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\nAmtrak has seen growth in the Northeast Corridor, especially with its high-speed Acela Express and long-distance routes from New Orleans to Chicago and Los Angeles.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\nSource:<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Travel\/wireStory?id=10324249\" target=\"_blank\"> ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Amtrak breaks ridership record &nbsp; Amtrak is reporting that ridership increased by 4.3% with a record breaking 13.6 million passengers during the first six months of their fiscal 2010 year. &nbsp; This tops 2008 when 13.5 million people road the rails in the first half of fiscal 2008.&nbsp; Amtrak&#39;s CEO Joseph Boardman explained that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}