Why do some states have more Amtrak stations than others?
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Occasional delays, but frequent service on the Northeast Corridor. Today I woke up in Philadelphia and had to come to New York. I didn't even look at the train schedule before I went to 30th Street Station. When I got off the Philly subway at 30th, I launched the Amtrak app, bought a ticket for the next train, and waited maybe 12 minutes until its departure time. It's an hour and 20 minute ride from PHL-NYC.
It's expensive for commuting, especially more than 1-2 times a week, but not bad if your home is near the station on the home end and the office is near the station on the other end.
My condo overlooks the NEC (in nj) so i see all the amtrak trains pass through New Brunswick lol.
No one has yet mentioned Section 403(b) of the legislation which estabished Amtrak some 50 years ago. Under this law, states may establish their own service, with supplemental Federal funding. States such as California, New York, Illinois. North Carolina and Pennsylvania operate Secton 403(b) services; Texas, Georgia and Florida do not. Many thinly-settled "red" states have only one schediled service, often cut back from daily to four times weekly since the emergence of the COVID pandemic, and serving those states (Nebraska and Kansas are examples) only in the dead of night.
The cost of expanding these services to the levels offered in the 1950s would simply be too great.
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