Amtrak suspended service along its heavily traveled Northeast corridor, which ferries about 750, 000 daily riders on a typical workday.
Airlines have already canceled more than 3, 500 flights to and from the affected region, and Amtrak has canceled many trips in the Northeast corridor.
Amtrak also said it is essential to the entire Northeast Corridor to build new tunnels connecting New York to New Jersey under the Hudson River.
In the US, trains are largely impractical as an alternative to flying or driving, with a few notable exceptions like the Northeast corridor (NYC, DC, Boston and Philadelphia).
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Amtrak announced just after noon that it would halt all service on the northeast corridor between New York and Boston, at the request of police involved in the manhunt.
Amtrak said its crews continue to inspect and make repairs to the infrastructure along the Amtrak-owned Northeast Corridor, Springfield Line and Harrisburg Line in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.
Outside of the Northeast Corridor, and unlike in Europe and Japan, only a few city pairs in the U.S. are close enough to allow the necessary speed and convenience.
To some extent the national rise in home prices is due to both technology and preferences driving more people to want to live in high rent areas like the Northeast Corridor.
No train in the Amtrak system supports itself, even those in the corridors -- the Northeast Corridor, and a few other lines in Florida, the Midwest and the West Coast -- that are truly useful.
"Maryland and the NEC (Northeast Corridor) would benefit greatly from receipt of the federal high-speed rail funds recently rejected by the governor of Florida, " Democratic Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said in a statement addressed to LaHood.
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Metro-North railroad officials said they plan to restore full train service on the New Haven Line for the Wednesday morning rush, five days after a derailment and crash halted train service on a busy stretch of the Northeast Corridor.
In a recent survey conducted by Corenet, corporate real estate managers in the northeast corridor reported that Hurricane Sandy had affected a variety of functions, including the operation of mission-critical facilities, data storage, back up energy sources and access to transportation infrastructure.
The extension would not interfere with the other major river-crossing project that has been championed since the demise of the ARC project: Amtrak's Gateway project, which would add new tunnels to connect the northeast corridor lines in New Jersey to Penn Station in Manhattan.
In the US, Amtrak set a new record as passengers across its national network grew 3.7% from October 2011 to March 2012, with more than 30 million people travelling. the Northeast Corridor line between Washington DC and Boston, which is popular among business travellers, saw an 8% rise in that same period in passenger numbers for the same period.
The Northeast Ecological Corridor comprises 14 sq km (5.4 sq miles) of the island's coast.
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