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Chicagocon '09 - The Internet Invades the Midwest
CardinalFang:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 19 May 2009, 04:05 ---
--- Quote from: Linds on 18 May 2009, 12:18 ---take a train for the first time ever
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seriously?
I can't comprehend living in a country where trains are not a regular part of life. I hadn't even thought about this but does America have inter-town trains? Like, trains that stop at each little village along the way? Or does the ubiquity of the automobile make it unnecessary? (I am so pretentious today)
Wow. Ever so often something reminds me that America is a whole other country, not just some kind of British clone a few thousand miles away.
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Seriously.
I've never been on a train and I don't know many people who have.
To the best of my knowledge unless Amtrak has a stop in your city you don't have passenger rail service.
Here's what AAA has to say about the upcoming Memorial Day weekend (emphasis mine).
"Trips by auto will be the beneficiary of Americans’ returning wanderlust with 27 million people – or nearly 83 percent of all travelers - planning a road trip. This is an increase from last Memorial Day when 26.3 million travelers paid among the highest fuel prices on record to travel by motor vehicle. This summer AAA does not expect the price of gasoline to average more than $2.50 per gallon. The current nationwide average price of self-serve regular is $2.22 and in Hampton Roads the average is $2.08. In contrast to trips by personal automobile, trips by air will decline by 1 percent. Approximately 2.1 million Americans will travel by air over the holiday weekend, AAA said. This is 7 percent of total travelers. Trips by other modes, including rail, buses and watercraft, will be the dominant means of travel used by an estimated 3.3 million Americans, or 10 percent of all travelers."
I would bet that most of that 10% will be on a bus instead of a train.
I wish there were more and better train service.
pwhodges:
I (just barely) remember trains that had not only first and second class compartments, but also third class.
Eris:
Paul, there is a man who catches the same train as I do on Tuesday evenings who is the Newcastle version of you! He has less hair though, and looks unhappier. He gets off at the same station as me and is always listening to music on the train while reading the Financial Review.
I don't need to meet the internet, I see them all the time, it seems.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Eris on 19 May 2009, 05:10 ---while reading the Financial Review.
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That I would never do...
Eris:
Maybe that is why Newcastle Paul is unhappy?
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