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theactualcluegirl:
systlin:
rowantheexplorer:
systlin:
rowantheexplorer:
caucasianscriptures:
Meet the Midwesterners
Seriously, here in Texas, to get to the next major city is an hour by plane (which of course means absorbing 5 hours of your day because airports), 3-8 hours by car, or 5-12 hours by Amtrak. If I’m going to be blowing so much daylight anyway, I might as well do it in the lowest-stress way possible. Train stations for the most part don’t have TSA, trains have lovely huge seats in coach like you’d find in first class on a plane, there’s actually good food on the train. Also, the tickets are cheap; I can go from Austin to Dallas for $25, which is less than gas. I’ve about decided to always try to take the train if I can.
I’m in this post and please please please give us more trains.
The most frustrating part to me is that the areas of the country that could most benefit from cheap rail, rural areas, are the same areas that Amtrak keeps having to close lines because of poor ridership and political bullshit.
100% agree.
I agree. I’ve been on a train that was nearly 50 hours late, had the bomb squad called on me personally while in a train, had my luggage stolen from a train’s baggage car, and almost had to break the glass in the emergency door to get me and my fellow passengers out of our car, but I would STILL rather take the train than a plane if it’s at all possible to do so.
theactualcluegirl:
systlin:
rowantheexplorer:
systlin:
rowantheexplorer:
caucasianscriptures:
Meet the Midwesterners
Seriously, here in Texas, to get to the next major city is an hour by plane (which of course means absorbing 5 hours of your day because airports), 3-8 hours by car, or 5-12 hours by Amtrak. If I’m going to be blowing so much daylight anyway, I might as well do it in the lowest-stress way possible. Train stations for the most part don’t have TSA, trains have lovely huge seats in coach like you’d find in first class on a plane, there’s actually good food on the train. Also, the tickets are cheap; I can go from Austin to Dallas for $25, which is less than gas. I’ve about decided to always try to take the train if I can.
I’m in this post and please please please give us more trains.
The most frustrating part to me is that the areas of the country that could most benefit from cheap rail, rural areas, are the same areas that Amtrak keeps having to close lines because of poor ridership and political bullshit.
100% agree.
I agree. I’ve been on a train that was nearly 50 hours late, had the bomb squad called on me personally while in a train, had my luggage stolen from a train’s baggage car, and almost had to break the glass in the emergency door to get me and my fellow passengers out of our car, but I would STILL rather take the train than a plane if it’s at all possible to do so.
