(Source: Billy Penn, December 16, 2019)
PHILADELPHIA — Buying an Amtrak ticket might soon be as onerous as booking an airplane flight, if changes proposed in a leaked memo are actually implemented. A memo obtained by Business Insider last week shows that the national transit agency is considering making some tickets nonrefundable, and limiting changes to existing reservations. That’s a pretty big deal for the Philadelphia region, where 4.4 million people rode Amtrak last year. Across Pennsylvania, ridership was about 6.5 million.
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