Moving Amtrak station in Maricopa a cog in overpass plans
By Raquel Hendrickson | inMaricopa.com
When an Amtrak train pulls into the Maricopa station, it does not stop just once.
The platform is only long enough to allow access to one baggage car and one passenger car. The train stops the first time for the first access, and then it pulls forward and stops again for access to more baggage and more passengers. And then it does so again.
It is a 10-minute procedure. For most of that time, the train is stopping the traffic flow on State Route 347.
