![]() The Boise metro area has over 810,000 people, while the Sioux Falls metro has a population of only 290,000. ![]() Sioux Falls to Minneapolis is a 240-mile trip. Boise to Salt Lake City is a 340-mile trip. South Dakota and Wyoming are the only lower-48 states with no Amtrak rail station. Amtrak, national service map, revised October 2018. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Boise Mayor Lauren McLean and many other local leaders. The conversation about reviving rail service here has been going for years, with bipartisan support from Sen. Amtrak and freight carriers like BNSF would also have to work out a shared use schedule. The rail line between Boise and Salt Lake City is heavily used by freight, but would need major upgrades to handle higher-speed passenger service, and longer side-offs where freight can pull off so passenger trains can speed by. ![]() The effort to bring passenger rail service back through Boise hit high gear after the federal government allocated millions of dollars to study where in the US expanding or reviving Amtrak service.īoise is one of dozens of cities and regions vying for that money in the Corridor Identification Program, which will be awarded this fall by the U.S. South Dakota is too cheap and stuck in the ideological mud to work for an Amtrak line, but equally rural and Republican Idaho is making a real effort to restore passenger rail service: ![]()
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