6/12/2023 0 Comments Ontime trainI will agree that if a train is up to 15 minutes (or even 30 minutes) late it should not pose a serious problem for most. The statistics posted were mid year averages for Amtrak routes. Just wondering if anything is or can be done to put pressure on the hosts to give Amtrak reasonable? priority when using their lines that Amtrak is paying to use. It would be nice to see Congress fund Amtrak better but that has been and will continue to be an uphill battle. Do the host railways just take the stand "don't like it.use another hosts tracks.ha, ha! They are the only game in town. The questions here are, does Amtrak have any performance expectations, penalties in the contract(s) or is it just permission to go from point A to point B when the line is open. I have to assumeīy contract at a certain rate. Having asked that, with repect to the LD trains and their dismal performance by comparison I do understand that Amtrak pays to travel the host railways network. Has this 72% gotten better, worse or stayed the same. Amtrak writes and I assume pads the schedules somewhat in the NEC to take into account scheduled track work and other infrastructure issues on their own property. It would seem that Amtrak owns the decisions from A to Z in the NEC and has for some time. Anyone out there have a handle on what is keeping the OTP this low, is it equipment failure, age, maintenance. 72% is probably not that great by comparison to what goes on in some other countries. Common sense would say of course you would expect the OTP in the NEC to be better when you own the rails and the equipment and call the shots. Just thought that the blind supporters of Amtrak (and the apologists) might appreciate the real situation for a change.Ī few questions come to mind regarding this OTP issue. Something needs to be done to improve the LD trains performance record. Point is that unless you are on the California trains or NEC the chance of being on-time are way lower than the 72% number that is bounced around. However if we take a system wide average by routes the number is abysmal. On the number of trains scheduled this on-time performance record is accurate. That's what drives the 70+% on-time number. Both the NEC and California corridors run loads of trains and that skews the on-time number to about 72%. There seems to be a lot of confusion on this forum relative to the on-time performance of Amtrak so here is something to consider.įirst the good news.
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