From the Lansing State Journal

Ridership on Amtrak’s Blue Water line picked up this fiscal year as a record number of passengers used the East Lansing stop.

About 58,530 riders boarded or got off the national passenger railroad’s trains in East Lansing during fiscal year 2010 that ended in September. That was up about 15 percent from 50,953 a year earlier, according to statistics released by the Michigan Department of Transportation.

East Lansing’s ridership accounted for 18.6 percent of the 315,418 passengers for the Blue Water line, which runs from Port Huron to Chicago and stops in eight other Michigan cities. The East Lansing train station is located at 1240 S. Harrison Road, near Trowbridge Road.

Overall, the Blue Water line saw an 18.7 percent increase over the fiscal year after experiencing a 2.7 percent drop from 2008 to 2009.

Source: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20101019/NEWS03/310190017/1004/news03/