On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:12:17AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:32:10AM -0800, Marshall Clow wrote: > > 3) Train - about 17 hours - $130 round trip. > > > > Help me out here - why would I take the train? > > Recently I went from DC to SF. It took about five hours of flight time > each way on JetBlue, which sells round-trip direct tickets for > $200. It was very pleasant. > Okay, but the thread was, I believe, about the destructive effects of subsidy. So lets yank back that 20 billion just given to the airlines. How would your flight have gone then? Would there even be one? Yes, we have to live in the world as it is, but it's a bit absurd to put down Amtrack when the airlines have become by far the most publically funded method of travel. Amtrack, publically funded? What a joke!
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