Amtrak officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday morning to mark completion of a new boarding platform for high-speed trains at Baltimore’s Penn Station.
Platform Five, as the project is called, is a key phase of Amtrak’s $150 million initiative to improve customer service and increase ridership at Penn Station, the eighth busiest Amtrak facility in the country with more than three million Amtrak and MARC passengers a year. Over the past year, representatives say, Amtrak ridership increased 29 percent in Baltimore, surpassing the 24 percent growth rate in Amtrak ridership nationwide.
When it goes into service this spring, Platform Five will be the location where passengers will board Amtrak’s high-speed Acela trains. When Amtrak launches a new fleet of Acela trains later this year, passengers will board those trains from Platform Five as well.
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