http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/a...13/1004/NEWS03
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East Lansing Amtrak riders set record
Lansing State Journal • January 30, 2010 • From Lansing State Journal
EAST LANSING — A record number of passengers used the East Lansing stop for Amtrak’s Blue Water line during the last fiscal year.
More than 50,950 riders boarded or got off the national passenger railroad’s trains in East Lansing in fiscal year 2009 that ended Sept 30.
That accounted for 19 percent of the roughly 265,700 passengers for the Blue Water line, which runs from Port Huron to Chicago and stops in eight other Michigan cities.
Last year’s East Lansing ridership was at the highest level since the line started about 35 years ago, according to statistics released by the Michigan Department of Transportation.
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The number may not sound impressive...until you consider the station that serves the area:
rwelder
I can't even imagine the kind of numbers they'd get if they had a respectable station in a more central location.
EDIT: This looks to have been some bad research. FY2009 actually recorded a ridership of 52,010, not 50,950. I'm not sure where they got that number from, becauses that wasn't even the ridership for FY2008.