I last rode Amtrak sometime in the '80s, and the schedule adherence was not good. Has that improved at all? If I took a train, it would be a goodly distance.
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
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Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Feb 18, 2010 1:51:50 pm PST #9257 of 30001
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Hil R. - Feb 18, 2010 1:53:58 pm PST #9258 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I last rode Amtrak sometime in the '80s, and the schedule adherence was not good. Has that improved at all? If I took a train, it would be a goodly distance.
In general, the Northeast Corridor trains are reasonably on time -- I've been taking them back and forth between DC and NJ at least four or five times a year for the past seven years, and I can only remember two major delays that weren't weather-related -- but I've heard that other routes are pretty bad about being on time.
§ ita § - Feb 18, 2010 1:56:27 pm PST #9259 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If my arm rests alongside my neighbour's arm, I would prefer it were not so. If my neighbour's arm is touching my stomach, no. And I don't feel like a prima donna for drawing that line. If my neighbour puts his feet under the seat in front of me so I can't stretch out my legs straight, no. Again, I feel totally right about that.
Like I care if it's fat or bone or muscle touching me. That's entirely not the point.
aurelia - Feb 18, 2010 2:01:38 pm PST #9260 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Passenger trains yield to to freight trains. Timeliness probably varies according to how much you have to yield.
Hil R. - Feb 18, 2010 2:05:33 pm PST #9261 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I saw something once that compared train schedules from the forties to current ones, and all the passenger trains were faster then. The article said that it was because the rules about passenger trains yielding to freight trains were different then, I think.
Dana - Feb 18, 2010 2:08:02 pm PST #9262 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, my god, dude. Me, the editor. ME. Not you. ME.
Connie Neil - Feb 18, 2010 2:08:37 pm PST #9263 of 30001
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No trains from Provo/Salt Lake to Vegas. That's about the only travel I forsee.
Burrell - Feb 18, 2010 2:10:45 pm PST #9264 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Making seats a few inches bigger (and the rows a few inches further apart) will lead to price increases. It seems like the most reasonable solution
See, I think if you end the sentence right there you have the answer. But I don't fly very often, so its easier for me to say its going to cost me more when I do.
billytea - Feb 18, 2010 2:15:26 pm PST #9265 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
See, I think if you end the sentence right there you have the answer. But I don't fly very often, so its easier for me to say its going to cost me more when I do.
American Airlines tried that, and not enough people were willing to pay for the extra space.
Liese S. - Feb 18, 2010 2:16:22 pm PST #9266 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I did! But I guess my one flight every six months or so isn't going to save the airline industry.