Amtrak Partners With Seastreak For Newport Water Shuttle

Amtrak today announced it will partner with Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) and Seastreak for another season to offer travelers connecting service from Providence Station to Newport via convenient shuttle connections to and from the SeaStreak Ferry Terminal now through Monday, October 10. There will be four daily roundtrips available now through Monday, September 5, and three daily roundtrips available from Tuesday, September 6 through Monday, October 10.

Amtrak travelers riding on both the Acela and Northeast Regional – the two Amtrak trains that service Providence Station – can connect with this service. The station is also served by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail that runs between Boston South Station and Wickford Junction via T.F. Green International Airport. In FY21, Providence Station was the 11^th busiest station in Amtrak’s national network with more than 303,000 passengers either boarding or alighting a train at the station.

-via Press Release

Record Ridership on MTA Commuter Railroads

Governor Kathy Hochul announced record ridership on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority commuter railroads, the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad. The LIRR carried 260,745 riders on Tuesday, May 14, the highest ridership for a single weekday since the pandemic. The ridership record coincided with a Grand Central Madison record – 41 percent of riders traveled to Grand Central Madison on Tuesday, the highest split with Penn Station since the terminal opened for full service last February.