U.S.: Amtrak considers assigned seating as pandemic dictates social distancing

By Eric Anderson, Albany Times-Union; May 29, 2020

RENSSELAER — Assigned seating could soon come to more Amtrak trains. The feature, long standard on airplanes and already offered in first class on Acela and business class on Northeast Regional trains, is seen as one way to implement social distancing in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

It also might enable contact tracing of people who might have been exposed should a passenger later be diagnosed with Covid 19.

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