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Milwaukee Airport Railroad Station is an Amtrak railway station located near the western edge of Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is served by the six daily round trips of the Hiawatha and the single daily round trip of the Borealis with a free shuttle between the station and the airport terminal.
Milwaukee Intermodal Station is an intercity bus and train station in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Amtrak service at Milwaukee includes the daily Empire Builder , the daily Borealis , and the six daily Hiawatha round trips.
The Hiawatha (also called the Hiawatha Service), is an 86-mile (138 km) train route operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Twelve to fourteen trains (six round-trips, five on Sunday) run daily between Chicago and Milwaukee, [2] making intermediate stops in Glenview, Illinois; Sturtevant, Wisconsin; and Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport.
In July 2011 the company changed its name from Riteway Bus Service to Go Riteway Transportation Group. Go Riteway offers daily commuter shuttle service to and from Milwaukee, West Bend, Richfield, and Germantown, Wisconsin as the Washington County Commuter Express (WCCE). It also operates charter services in Wisconsin and Illinois.
From November 1971 to April 1985, a series of other trains also served the routing, providing a second daily round trip at most times. Amtrak briefly reused the Twin Cities Hiawatha name for a Chicago-Minneapolis service from January 16 to June 12, 1972, and October 30, 1977, to April 30, 1978. [ 11 ]
The CONNECT 1 Bus Rapid Transit route officially began June 4, 2023, providing service between Downtown Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center via Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee and Bluemound Road in Wauwatosa. It was the first BRT route in the state of Wisconsin joined a year later in 2024 by the Metro Transit Rapid A route in Madison.
The train was an extension of an existing Chicago–Milwaukee Hiawatha round trip, renumbered from 333/340 to 1333/1340. Train 1333 departs Chicago at 11:05 am and arrives in St. Paul at 6:29 pm, while Train 1340 departs St. Paul at 11:50 am and arrives in Chicago at 7:14 pm. [ 28 ] Ridership was projected to be 124,000 passengers per year. [ 14 ]
Washington County Commuter Express was a contracted transportation service that provided service between Milwaukee and Washington counties. WCCE, which was a partner in the Southeast Wisconsin Transit System, was funded by Washington County and operated by Riteway Transportation in Richfield, Wisconsin.