Word: amtrak
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...provide this travel need, but fares offered by the beleaguered passenger train service remain distressingly high. For travel times of over four hours, standard round-trip tickets between Boston and New York cost around $110, and for service via the crown jewel of the Amtrak network—namely, the “high-speed” Acela train—these prices rise to over $200 for trips that last only an hour less. JetBlue, on the other hand, offers round-trip tickets ranging from $50 to $150 for flights that last little more than one hour. JetBlue?...
Negotiating the distance between the Hub of the Universe and the Big Apple was never easy. Harvard students who found themselves in a New York state of mind could choose between the cramped Fung Wah Bus and costly Amtrak service, neither of which was very inviting for undergrads desperate to escape the puritanical regime of 2 a.m. bar curfews. Thankfully, JetBlue Airways has come to the rescue with dramatically reduced airfare between Boston and New York: for a bit more than the Fung Wah fare, travelers can fly from Logan Airport to Kennedy Airport in just 70 short minutes...
...however, “I don’t like dealing with the airports in New York, so although it would be faster to fly, I would rather take the bus.” The other option for the Boston-New York commute is Amtrak—tickets on Amtrak trains range from $54 to $90, and tickets on the Acela express can be as pricey as $117. The JetBlue expansion will not stop with New York. The company plans to triple the number of destinations accessible to Boston travelers by the year 2006, according to its press release. Pheonix...
...parts joy, like a more thoughtful, humble Lee lacocca. "Ninety-five per-cent of industrial designers don't design," he says. "They are essentially stylists under the aegis of the marketing department." Stumpf hates the raw, unfriendly interiors of the standard school bus. He hates dull, inexpressive Amtrak locomotives. He hates hermetic, inscrutable electronics. "Things should telegraph their ability to come apart. You can't tinker with things anymore...
...introduced in phases, begins at the subway platforms at Park Street, Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and State Street, and includes the tunnels connecting those stations. Once the wires are in place, a transportation system that made the world a little smaller will be made a lot louder. While Amtrak trains have solved this problem by designating certain cars as quiet cars, where cell phones cannot be used, this solution does not apply to the T. T riders are often only in transit for ten minutes and can only enter the section of the train that stops in front of them...