{"id":156771,"date":"2020-12-16T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/?p=156771"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:38:17","slug":"california-amtrak-pandemic-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_es\/economy\/2020\/12\/california-amtrak-pandemic-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Un viaje lleno de obst\u00e1culos para Amtrak de California a medida que aumenta la pandemia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amtrak ha perdido la asombrosa cifra de $800 millones, y las tres rutas de California perdieron entre 65 y 85% de pasajeros. El servicio se ha reducido sustancialmente.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n

This story was corrected on Dec. 17 to reflect that ridership on the Capitol Corridor line is 15% of last year’s total, not 50%.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lea este art\u00edculo en ingles<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriella Choe has been a regular Amtrak passenger for the past four years, traveling from Oakland to Sacramento to see her parents. Before the pandemic, she rode the train nearly every other weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as the pandemic worsens, her visits are now infrequent, and she doesn\u2019t plan on traveling for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy sister\u2019s flying in for actual Christmas so I won\u2019t be coming home for that,\u201d said Choe, who works in an optometry office. \u201cWe\u2019re not in the same pod.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many Californians like Choe, a train trip has become too risky, so they are staying home during the holiday season, which is usually Amtrak\u2019s busiest time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ridership on Amtrak train routes has plummeted nationwide, triggering major cuts in service and causing about $800 million<\/a> in losses for the already-struggling rail service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty dire,\u201d said Donna DeMartino, managing director of the Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo Rail Corridor Agency (LOSSAN)<\/a>, which operates the Pacific Surfliner that travels from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. \u201cWith so few people riding, we have very little in the way of fares that we\u2019re collecting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amtrak has pregunt\u00f3<\/a> Congress for nearly $5 billion to help keep its nationwide routes running for the next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s more than double the amount that Amtrak normally receives. Amtrak President and CEO William J. Flynn cited \u201cthe dramatic loss in ridership and revenue that Amtrak experienced due to COVID-19…We have seen that our ridership is not returning as quickly or at the levels that we had hoped for.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While most of Amtrak\u2019s funding comes from the federal government, California pays, too. The state spent $114 million last year <\/a>to support its three routes: the Pacific Surfliner, the San Joaquins and the Capitol Corridor, which combined carried 5.66 million passengers<\/a> en 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ridership nationally has dipped to around 25% of pre-pandemic levels, Amtrak announced in late November. All three of California\u2019s routes are still struggling with low numbers of passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slowly rebounding<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In March, ridership on the Pacific Surfliner dropped 90%. Now about 1,300 customers a day ride the train \u2014 about an 80% decrease from last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The route has cut its service in half. The Surfliner is the nation\u2019s second most popular Amtrak route; almost 3 million passengers traveled on it in 2019, and many of them use it to visit amusement parks and sporting events. But Disneyland and other parks are closed, sporting events have few or no fans and many colleges allow students to learn from home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, 2,000 passengers rode the Surfliner. Last year? Nearly 14,000.<\/strong> The same low numbers are expected for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gabriella Choe, a regular Amtrak passenger for the past four years, said she travels less often because of the pandemic. Photo by Elizabeth Castillo for CalMatters<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But DeMartino remains optimistic about the Surfliner, especially because a vaccine is on its way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe run a beautiful service all along the coast of California. I think we have arguably one of the most beautiful routes in the world and people love to travel along the Surfliner,\u201d she said. \u201cWe believe our service will be one of the fastest to rebound.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Capitol Corridor, which runs from San Jose to Auburn, hit its low point in ridership in April, about 5% of normal, said Rob Padgette, managing director of the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority<\/a> that manages the train. Service was slashed, dropping from 15 daily round trips to five. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, ridership has slowly crept up, but has only reached about 15% of what it was last year. The route is now running at about 55% of its regular service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Capitol Corridor is preparing for another dip in ridership during the holidays as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in California. But, Padgette said, \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to cut service again.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRidership is pretty stable right now,\u201d he said. \u201cWe do carry people that work at Amazon, that work at hospitals and people who go in for cancer treatments. There are people who rely on our service.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Central Valley, service also has been slowly rebounding, said David Lipari, marketing manager for San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority<\/a>. The agency manages the San Joaquins route, which stops in Bakersfield, Fresno and the Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of that is due to the fact that the San Joaquins serve a lot of disadvantaged folks and people that need the service for essential travel,\u201d Lipari said. \u201cThey either don\u2019t have a car or don\u2019t have a reliable vehicle to get themselves to their end destination and really before the pandemic and during the pandemic this is the way they get around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The San Joaquins bottomed out at 10% of ridership levels in April, Lipari said, but in October, it rose to about 35% of last year\u2019s ridership. Service was cut from seven daily round trips to four, and the train no longer makes stops in Sacramento and Lodi. The agency expects numbers to decline during the COVID-19 surge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$1 billion not enough<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To survive the early stages of the pandemic, Amtrak received $1 billion in CARES Act funding in April. But it\u2019s not enough. Congress has just begun debating the 2021 federal budget, including the $4.9 billion request from Amtrak to retain service and another $5.2 billion for construction and capital investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInsufficient funding levels could force Amtrak to reduce its workforce by an additional 2,400 jobs as we scale back capital projects (approximately 775 jobs) and because our state partners have advised us that they would likely further reduce their train service (approximately 1,625 jobs),\u201d CED Flynn wrote in his letter to Congress in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cState partners have advised Amtrak that they will be forced to reduce service by up to roughly 65% compared to pre-COVID service levels because state payments will increase to unaffordable levels,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Pacific Surfliner, fare revenue normally pays about 70% of operating costs, DeMartino said, and the rest is paid by the state. Its board approved putting capital project work on hold and if necessary, using those funds to keep trains moving, DeMartino said. The agency might also have to dip into savings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To cut costs, all three routes have reduced staff at train stations. The Pacific Surfliner and the San Joaquins no longer allow checked baggage because of health guidelines, and the Capitol Corridor stopped allowing checked baggage several years ago.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A conductor looks out the door as the Bakersfield-bound train pulls away from the Emeryville Amtrak station on Dec. 16, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goal is absolutely to keep service as it was, at least at this reduced level, for as long as we possibly can,\u201d DeMartino said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amtrak requires riders to wear masks while onboard. In California, the routes also have increased train cleaning, discontinued food service and discouraged riders from eating while travelling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For riders like Margaret Henderson, 60, the train feels safe enough to travel from San Mateo to Sacramento. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m travelling because my boyfriend lives here and this will be our first time spending our birthdays together,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m a cancer survivor so we wanted to spend our day together.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henderson said she\u2019s been cancer-free for almost a year. She frequently sanitizes her hands and keeps her mask on during trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI like taking the train because I really feel safe,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve had no problems. So far so good.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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