After Backlash, Amtrak Delays Fare Increase - New York Times

It's good to see that the "backlash" did the trick. According to the Times:

...the potential gain from squeezing the small but vocal band of regulars is relatively small. Only about 2,000 people buy multiple-ride tickets each month, with most of them paying from $500 to $750. Even if all of them continued buying the higher-priced passes, the additional revenue to Amtrak would not amount to much more than $5 million a year. That's a rounding error to an operation that takes in about $2 billion and spends about $3 billion each year.

But this is no time to be complacent:

Representative Fitzpatrick, who met with Mr. Gunn yesterday morning to protest the fare increase and Amtrak's plan to cease service to a station in Cornwells Heights, Pa., north of Philadelphia, was pleased to hear that Mr. Gunn had decided to shelve both ideas, at least temporarily. But he said that Mr. Gunn did not commit to revising the fare increase, only to taking more time to explain it.

"I think there's a reason that Amtrak postponed its proposed fare increase," Mr. Fitzpatrick said. "I hope it's because there's another way."

Full article:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/nyregion/16amtrak.html?pagewanted=print