AMTRAK’S AUTO-TRAIN
Posted on 04 June 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
Using $10.5 million in Recovery Act funding, Amtrak is to construct a new station at the Auto-Train’s southern terminus in Sanford, Florida. The Auto Train, one of Amtrak’s best performing long-distance services, and one of the nation’s most innovative forms of intermodal passenger transport, conveys passengers together with their private cars non-stop from Lorton, Virginia (24km south of Washington, DC), to Central Florida. The new station will replace temporary facilities that have been in place since the destruction of much of the previous station by the 2005 hurricanes, and will provide Auto Train passengers with a more comfortable waiting area and allow for faster, more efficient boarding operations. Amtrak estimates that the project will result in 84 person-years of work for those directly employed in the construction of the new station.
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