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...seems like those pitfalls are more difficult to avoid than in the EU. The airlines and airports here are a mess, and there is no real alternative. It is only a matter of time before Americans realize—as their European counterparts have—that, with Amtrak privatization, transport by train on the East Coast could be vastly more efficient and convenient than taking a plane...
...same journeys, flights take approximately the same amount of time as ICE, but are cheaper in Europe than in the U.S. because airlines have to compete with train fares. After adding time for transport to the airport, security and check-in, ICE is very time-competitive with planes, whereas Amtrak doesn’t even come close...
...week after the August 29 landfall, Nagin vowed to make better use of city and federal resources next time around. Along with mobilizing the city?s transit system to evacuate residents, he said the city had been working with the federal Department of Homeland Security to make sure Amtrak trains would be available for evacuations and that commercial airlines would remain in operation long enough to ferry out all visitors who had already purchased return tickets...
...started chatting at the train platform at South Station, and I sat next to her and we chatted on the Amtrak train, and that’s how we met,” he says. “We had sort of a natural common interest, because we both had policy interests, and then we started dating and got married...
...Amtrak’s website yesterday, prices for a round-trip ticket from South Station to New Haven averaged $90-$116. That’s more expensive than the bus—a round-trip ticket on Greyhound will cost about $62—but the trip on Amtrak can be shorter by two hours or more. Some students plan simply to drive themselves. Cassie L. Fliegel ’06, a native of Cambridge, said she’s taking a group of her friends to the game in her dad’s Ford Explorer. Fliegel said that...