PORTLAND — Amtrak is restarting direct trips between Portland and Vancouver, B.C., marking full restoration of daily service on its popular Cascades route.
The return, effective Monday, provides Amtrak Cascades customers with multiple daily roundtrips between Seattle and Canada, some by connecting bus service.
About 159,000 people per year took direct trips between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., before the pandemic. Overall, including trips with stops along the way, about 290,000 passengers rode the train between the two large cities.
Passenger trains to Vancouver, B.C. were discontinued in 2020 when Canada closed the border. The border reopened in August 2021 for vaccinated travelers, but service did not immediately resume.
