Amtrak and the state Department of Transportation are studying whether it would be more cost effective to upgrade Amtrak's Middletown station to make it handicapped accessible, or to close the station and move the stop elsewhere.
According to Amtrak's Web site, more than 51,000 people used the Middletown station in 2008. That's a 30 percent increase from 2007. The Elizabethtown station had a 22 percent increase in riders.
"It's cheaper than gas and parking," said Miranda Sandstrom, who lives in Middletown and takes the train into Harrisburg every day.
"It's faster. I don't have to worry about traffic or bad weather. It's much, much better," she said. pennlive.com
Would you ride the train from York to Harrisburg or from York to Baltimore?
Since I live only across the river from Harrisburg I drive, but absolutely would take a train from York to Baltimore. Did it 55 years ago and would love the opportunity to do it again.