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Article: Heartland Flyer ridership jumps 23%
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- October 24, 2005
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The Heartland Flyer enjoyed a 23 percent increase in passenger
traffic for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, with 66,968 tickets sold.
That brought the route's total number of users to 370,707 since its
inaugural run on June 14, 1999.
The Heartland Flyer's ridership increase outperformed all other
independent short-distance routes in Amtrak's rail service, officials
said.
On a national level, Amtrak ridership rose for the third straight
year, from 25,053,564 to 25,374,998. This came despite service
disruptions that included the major hurricanes in the southern United
States.
John Dougherty with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation Rail
Programs Division attributed the Heartland Flyer ...