Progress on Burlington Amtrak service and bike path relocation moves along Shifting rails: Burlington prepares for Amtrak service Replay Video UP NEXT Momentum for the long-discussed Amtrak service extension into Burlington is still picking up: Burlington City Council members voted Monday on a suite of agreements needed to move the project along. The resolutions, unanimously passed by the council, advance several agreements and licenses between the city, Vermont Rail System, Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain and the Lake Champlain Transportation Company. "For decades many of you know that the city has identified these two goals of reintroducing passenger rail and relocating the bike path on the western side of the tracks, as priorities over many years and many planning documents," Chapin Spencer, director of Burlington Department of Public Works, said during the City Council meeting.