(The Associated Press circulated the following article on September 15.)
WASHINGTON — Starting Monday, Amtrak’s high-speed train will almost run hourly trips between D.C. and New York on weekdays.
The railroad will have its Acela Express trains leaving Union Station at the top of the hour between five in the morning and seven at night. On the trip back, trains will leave Penn Station hourly between six in the morning and eight at night.
The exceptions are no train from Washington at ten a.m., and no train from New York at six p.m.
Four of the daily roundtrips will also serve stations north of New York up to Boston.
Amtrak has been ramping up Acela service, which was yanked in April, when cracks were found in some of the trains’ braking systems.