![]() Perhaps the most obvious was the creation of the Hartford Line in 2018, service from New Haven to Hartford and Springfield. There have been improvements in recent years. We are their slowdown zone,” said Giulietti. “Amtrak is extremely frustrated by Connecticut. As has long been reported, the state under-funded its rail system for decades, resulting in what Giulietti calls “piecemeal maintenance.” Trips got slower, delays became more frequent and 19th-century swing bridges began to fail. Giulietti said while these options are still on the table, his immediate concern is bringing the existing system up to a state of good repair and, by doing so, getting as much speed out of it as is safely possible. Over the past decade or more, a variety of concepts have been put forward about revamping rail travel in the state, from a second deck along the shoreline route for high-speed trains to a rail tunnel under Long Island Sound.Ī Metro North train exits the Stamford station toward New Haven in July 2021. Upgrading the present system will most likely be the wave of the future for Connecticut rail. Giulietti said he expects to meet that goal when new schedules are released later this year, thanks mostly to roadbed improvements. Ned Lamont announced a plan, Time for CT, that among other things promised to shave 10 minutes off the trip from New Haven to New York this year and 25 minutes off the ride by 2035. He said New Jersey rail ridership “closely mirrors ours.”Īs riders return, Giulietti hopes to treat them to a (slightly) faster ride to New York. Having reached a low of 5.3% of pre-pandemic ridership in April 2020, overall ridership, weekend and weekday, reached 55.1% last month, nearly 2 million riders, “and it keeps climbing,” Giulietti said.
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