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WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar and Rail Division Operations Manager Jason Biggs publicly unveiled the new Amtrak Cascades schedules at the AAWA picnic meeting in Lacey today (Aug 12). WSDOT and Amtrak are looking at early December to implement the new service with 3:20 running times and contractual guarantee of 88% on time performance from BNSF (though delays outside BNSF's control that will not be counted against them). The attached schedule does not include the Thruway bus connections. Nineteen of the 20 infrastructure projects are complete. Only the new Tacoma Dome Amtrak Station and the Tacoma trestle remain to be finished.