BNSF Woodinville Abandonment Notice

Here is a notice of BNSF's abandonment application at the Surface Transportation Board site. It notes abandonment between Bellevue and Woodinville, but does not make mention of anything south to Renton.

The Snohomish County section appears to fall under a different application.

Amtrak ridership up in Washington and Oregon

Not surprising to me that Amtrak ridership is up in Washington and Oregon, since the price of fuel has been all over the charts for the last year and a half. But the numbers overall - 12% increase overall from 2007 and a whopping 26% between Seattle and Portland - is impressive to say the least.

Equally impressive is the fact that Amtrak does this on a shoestring budget and with aging equipment. Hopefully in the coming years the funding will match the increase in ridership.