$8.2 Billion from the President’s Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda – a key pillar of Bidenomics – is delivering world class-infrastructure across the country, expanding access to economic opportunity, and creating good-paying jobs. By delivering $66 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law –…
I tried the same exercise and it’s so frustrating most people would give up. It took way too long to get to a route map, so I could find out Altoona connects to Philly and Pittsburg
Booking a trip as one thing didn’t work so I tried booking two legs: Raleigh—>Phil, Phil—>Altoona. This approach lets you specify different dates, so your logic about different days doesn’t hold …
Then I had to give up. Amtrak’s site is broken for iPhone/Safari so each operation was delayed by as long as a minute or more and I was never able to proceed far enough to see schedules. No one uses a smartphone these days: clearly just a fad
This is why I find the response “people don’t use rail much in the US, there just isn’t the demand, we have to wait until there is demand” so annoying. It’s like Amtrak sucks, I would have spent innumerable more time on trains if Amtrak wasn’t overpriced crap that makes you book far in advance like a fucking airline flight in order to get a reasonable ticket price.
I pretty much only utilize commuter rails like the MTA in Boston because they are so much more functional and affordable.
I tried the same exercise and it’s so frustrating most people would give up. It took way too long to get to a route map, so I could find out Altoona connects to Philly and Pittsburg
Booking a trip as one thing didn’t work so I tried booking two legs: Raleigh—>Phil, Phil—>Altoona. This approach lets you specify different dates, so your logic about different days doesn’t hold …
Then I had to give up. Amtrak’s site is broken for iPhone/Safari so each operation was delayed by as long as a minute or more and I was never able to proceed far enough to see schedules. No one uses a smartphone these days: clearly just a fad
This is why I find the response “people don’t use rail much in the US, there just isn’t the demand, we have to wait until there is demand” so annoying. It’s like Amtrak sucks, I would have spent innumerable more time on trains if Amtrak wasn’t overpriced crap that makes you book far in advance like a fucking airline flight in order to get a reasonable ticket price.
I pretty much only utilize commuter rails like the MTA in Boston because they are so much more functional and affordable.
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