The price of a monthly pass between Philadelphia and Wilmington has increased nearly 70%.
Owen Sahnow, who works at the Delaware Theatre Company, wonders how he’ll commute in the future from Philadelphia to Wilmington now that Amtrak is raising the price of his monthly pass by nearly 70%.to 30th Street Station where he hops on an Amtrak train to Wilmington. He has been paying $324 a month for his Amtrak monthly pass and an additional $94 for aNext month, it will be a different story. Amtrak raised prices on all of its multi-ride tickets on the Northeast Corridor starting July 1.
Prices were not raised uniformly. A monthly pass between Philadelphia and Trenton used to cost $552 and now costs $825, a 49% increase. Commuters riding Amtrak between New York and Philadelphia used to pay $1,032 for their monthly pass and now will pay $1,250, a 21% increase. Travelers looking to get monthly passes between Washington and Wilmington will pay $1,250 now compared to $948 previously, a nearly 32% increase.
“The challenge now is, if I’m going to pay $94 a month for SEPTA and $550 a month for Amtrak … like at that point, I might as well own a new car, which I don’t really think I could afford right now, but maybe, maybe I could,” he said. Since last December they’ve bought monthly Amtrak passes to make the trips. She paid $324 for Wilmington-Philadelphia. His pass cost $792 for the longer trip to Baltimore. But as of July 1, the passes to Philadelphia jumped to $550, a nearly 70% increase. The monthly price for Wilmington-Baltimore trips went up to $1,075, or nearly 36%.
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