CHARLOTTE — Increasingly more persons are selecting to take the prepare in North Carolina.
A North Carolina Division of Transportation report shared Tuesday says 2023 set a document for the variety of passengers who rode trains within the state.
In 2023, greater than 641,000 passengers took the state’s intercity passenger prepare. That features folks boarding the prepare on the Charlotte Amtrak station to stops like Salisbury and Raleigh.
NCDOT says including a fifth round-trip route between Raleigh and Charlotte helped drive development in ridership. The prepare additionally made particular stops for the North Carolina State Honest, the Lexington Barbecue Pageant and soccer video games.