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Comment: Re:Who cares? (Score 2) 162

by geekoid (#43757559) Attached to: Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi

What about leg room over time? I spend 4 hours in the air with little leg room, and then I get all the leg room I want. During that same distance on a train, you get adequate legroom for 2 days.

frankly, I would rather be uncomfortable for 4 hours then on a train for 2 days

and I've seen most of the country, and most of it is blah. the rest is interesting for 10 minutes.

"Also, quite interestingly, it's the standard way to travel long distances for Amish and Mennonites."
no, that's' not interesting at all. it's what we call 'expected'.

moving hotel room? yeah, if you spend about 800+ per night. I was thinking of taking my family from PDX to Los Angels(then renting a car and going to disney)
total train cost? 1500 dollars.
flight? 1000 dollars.
driving 750 dollars.
so of the three option trains was the most expensive and the slowest.

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Comment: Re:I believe I speak for a dozen people when I say (Score 1) 162

by geekoid (#43757169) Attached to: Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi

And privatizing those rails killed it. another example of the private industry unable to do infrastructure programs.
Which is fine, they don't d [projects like that well. The government has a long history of doing them well.
Yet anyone who has been polluted by Ann Rand* can't seem to see that.

*I did that on purpose. If it angered you you have become to emotional attached to that outmoded economic way of thinking.
And by you I mean anyone reading.

Comment: Re:Outside Boswash, there isn't much Amtrak (Score 1) 162

by geekoid (#43757105) Attached to: Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi

if anyone is attacking the train industry, its the train industry.

They do stupid things. However I don't think the number would increase that much, sure people like trains...until it take 3 days to get somewhere they could fly to in 3 hours, and usually cheaper.

If I could take a train from Portland to Las Vegas I would do so, probably every couple of years. but I am in the minority.

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