Honestly, the biggest obstacle with passenger train travel outside the NE corridor is not expense or quality of service. It's not even *necessarily* the time it takes. It's that service is daily or semi-daily.https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/1093558607420055554 …
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Want to take the train from Chicago to Minneapolis? Hope you're okay with getting in at 10:00pm, since there's only one train a day and it leaves Chicago at 2:30pm.
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(Again, simply adequately funding Amtrak so that they can actually increase the # of trains in service would go a long way to solving their service issues.)
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I'm trying to figure out the best way to get to Lafayette, IN for a conference in June. I'd *like* to take the Cardinal service overnight -- goes from DC right to Lafayette -- but it only runs three days a week!
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But this is why the "well, Americans really love flying!" argument is B.S. Because there's no realistic alternative to flying, given the spottiness of train service nationally, and in the Northeast, its expense.
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A one-way ticket to Boston on Amtrak on April 3, 2019 (I'm just using that date as an example) is $79. It's $41-74 on the plane.
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It's almost as if Trump deliberately chose the former CEO of Delta Airlines to run Amtrak in order to hamstring it or something.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/amtrak-forgot-trains-arent-planes …
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lol my favorite part of this -- it comes from the
@dcexaminer, after all -- is quoting@Peggynoonannyc complaining about this as if it were just cluelessness, as if it weren't a deliberate policy choice by the administration.pic.twitter.com/54KzHgg8gH
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