'Get It Done'
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.
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.
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.
Passenger trains yield to to freight trains. Timeliness probably varies according to how much you have to yield.
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.
Oh, my god, dude. Me, the editor. ME. Not you. ME.
No trains from Provo/Salt Lake to Vegas. That's about the only travel I forsee.
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.
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.
I did! But I guess my one flight every six months or so isn't going to save the airline industry.
I am honestly defeated by the idea of spending $1200 at the very cheapest every time I want my family to visit my relatives (who all live in the same city.) But it's a 19 hour drive. What the hell are we supposed to do?
I will say that although most flights I have been on these last 6 years have been cramped, and I often end up shoulder to shoulder with a stranger (I always get broad-shouldered men - I don't sit next to mr. flea because we usually are 2 and 2, one each with a kid.) But surprisingly I almost always get very friendly people, and when it's men, they are almost always parents of small children themselves, so are extra solicitous about helping with drinks and snacks and potty trips. For all that airlines suck, the world has some really nice people in it. Or possibly I sacrificed a goat to the elder gods of air travel.