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Several major cities and regional business centers in the continental United States lack Amtrak service. Five of these metropolitan areas boast more than one million residents. However, some of these cities may be served by Thruway Motorcoach. There is no Amtrak service outside of 46 of the contiguous states and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec. There is no Amtrak service to the states of South Dakota or Wyoming. A partial list of the cities not directly served by Amtrak is as follows (in order by decreasing population of metropolitan area): Other cities are not served directly due to inconvenient water barriers: *San Francisco - trains stop across the bay in Oakland and Emeryville, California. Whereas trains once went from Oakland to San Francisco, they have been replaced by auto traffic (although the BART commuter heavy rail system operates a trans-bay tube underneath the bay and Amtrak-operated Caltrain connects to the ''Capitol Corridor'' and ''Coast Starlight'' in San Jose). However, Amtrak has worked on plans to resume the ''Coast Daylight'' service (which once existed as an Amtrak service but was rerouted to continue north to Portland and renamed the ''Coast Starlight'') from San Francisco to Los Angeles since the late 1990s, which will, when launched, finally give San Francisco Amtrak rail service. More specific plans have been assembled within the last few years, but any restoration of service would start in 2013 at the earliest. *St. Petersburg, Florida - trains stop across Tampa Bay in Tampa. Trains had previously crossed some of the bays in question. St. Petersburg lost service across the bay when CSX lacked adequate funds to maintain the bridge across the bay. The only other method of transportation is taxi. The TECO Line Streetcar System and HART buses both do not connect with the two areas, although express bus service exists between PSTA and HART. Amtrak provides no service to Mexico. The closest Amtrak service to Mexico may be found at stations along the western portion of the ''Sunset Limited'' and southwestern portion of the ''Texas Eagle'' in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California; as well as the ''Pacific Surfliner'' service to Union Station in San Diego. Phoenix, Arizona is served via Thruway Motorcoach from the ''Southwest Chief'' at Flagstaff, Arizona. The ''Sunset Limited'' stops three times a week at Maricopa, roughly south of the city; private taxis and the Maricopa MAX express bus are the only transportation from there to metro Phoenix, although MAX bus schedules do not coincide with Amtrak, which arrives during the night. Phoenix lost service in June 1996 after Southern Pacific (now part of the Union Pacific) threatened to abandon the line from Yuma. Amtrak is currently studying rail lines formerly canceled that could renew service to some cities. Cities involved include Boise, Mobile, Tallahassee, the Quad Cities,〔 Billings, and Wichita. Proposals for high-speed rail could also restore service for several cities. Both plans should reveal cities selected by 2010. Other services Amtrak intends on restoring include the ''Pioneer'' (serving Chicago-Seattle via the ''California Zephyr''), the ''Black Hawk'', the ''North Coast Hiawatha'' (serving Chicago-Seattle via the ''Empire Builder''), and the New Orleans-Orlando segment of the ''Sunset Limited''. ==See also== * List of Amtrak routes * List of Amtrak stations * List of busiest Amtrak stations 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of major cities in U.S. lacking Amtrak service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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