The recently restored King Street Station in Seattle (Photo: JOHN LOK/THE SEATTLE TIMES)
Have you seen our beautifully restored King Street Station yet? With such a stunning gateway to our city, you might think folks are clamoring to take Amtrak more than ever.
You’d be wrong.
Ridership on Amtrak’s Cascade route dropped 4 percent in the 2013 fiscal year, according to numbers released Monday by the company.
In 2013, 811,692 passengers boarded a train along the Cascades route, which runs between Vancouver, B.C., and Eugene, Ore. That’s a decline of more than 33,000 passengers from 2012.
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