Amtrak: FY '10's First Six Months: Best Ridership Ever. Year-end ridership is projected to reach 28.3 million passengers.

From Amtrak:
Buoyed by continued high fuel costs, a slowly improving economy and route-specific improvements on the long-distance services, ridership on Amtrak trains for the first half of FY '10 reached nearly 14 million passengers, the best first half of a fiscal year in company history. Year-end ridership is projected to reach 28.3 million passengers.

"The 13.6 million passengers who rode with us during the first half of the fiscal year — October 2009 through March 2010 — contributed to a 4.3 percent increase over the same period the prior year," according to Marketing and Product Development Vice President Emmett Fremaux. "Ridership in the first half of FY '10 was even higher than the first half of our FY '08 banner year."