"Scott en Aztlán" <scottenaztlan@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9jqg435rsg9km94o0c7kfi9c3ndg0ce13l@4ax.com... > If someone asked you which was the busiest railroad station in the > country, you'd probably guess Grand Central Terminal in New York, or > maybe the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago. But the actual > winner is one I never would have guessed - and I use it myself every > week. > > According to the Irvine World News, the Irvine Amtrak/Metrolink > station is the busiest railroad station in the country with 675,000 > passengers using the station annually. > > http://epaper.ocregister.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=T0NXSXJ2aW5lV29ybGROZXdzLzIwMDcvMDU vMDMjQXIwMDcwMA==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-ocr > > Who'd have thought that America's busiest rail station would be here > in SoCal, the land where the Automobile is God? You might want to check the total for Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, which eclipses that figure in a couple of days.

In article <9jqg435rsg9km94o0c7kfi9c3ndg0ce13l@4ax.com>, Scott en Aztl?n <scottenaztlan@yahoo.com> wrote: > If someone asked you which was the busiest railroad station in the > country, you'd probably guess Grand Central Terminal in New York, or > maybe the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago. But the actual > winner is one I never would have guessed - and I use it myself every > week. > > According to the Irvine World News, the Irvine Amtrak/Metrolink > station is the busiest railroad station in the country with 675,000 > passengers using the station annually. > > http://epaper.ocregister.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=T0NXSXJ2aW5lV29ybGROZXdzLzI > wMDcvMDUvMDMjQXIwMDcwMA==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-ocr > > Who'd have thought that America's busiest rail station would be here > in SoCal, the land where the Automobile is God? Read it again. Irvine is the busiest station in the COUNTY (Orange County, CA), not the COUNTRY. New York Penn Station had 7.5 million Amtrak passengers a year, and many times that many LIRR passengers. Los Angeles Union Station has 1.4 million Amtrak passengers a year and many more Metrolink passengers. San Diego has about 870,000 Amtrak passengers a year, plus Coaster passengers. Of the hundreds of stations served by Amtrak, Irvine ranks 14th in number of Amtrak passengers. Pretty high, but not number one. If you included commuter passengers, Irvine would be much lower in rank. Merritt