“Once you explain to a guy that a ticket for a high-speed run between LA and SD is around $160 round-trip....most folks will laugh and just say ‘no thanks’.”
Where do you get $160, idiot (just kidding). Try $800, for my family (ok, maybe a bit less for the kids, so $560). That’s really where the trade is. When taking a family on a train (and then renting a car) can compete with driving, please wake me up.
Where do you get $160, idiot (just kidding). Try $800, for my family (ok, maybe a bit less for the kids, so $560). That’s really where the trade is. When taking a family on a train (and then renting a car) can compete with driving, please wake me up.
So
You mean
Drive to station
Park car
walk thru huge parking lot in hot sun.
Pay $100++ each per person to go somewhere ...
Lug all the food, books, blankets, meds,
Board the crowded smell can’t sit together train
Reverse all this at the other end incl rent car
can’t change plans or go anywhere at other end as tied to train station and schedules .......
Total over $1,000 to go from LA to the SD zoo and back
or ya can go in the family car for $25 gasoline or less.
Sorry WIllie
Car = Freedom
Train = State Enforced Slavery
Thats why the Brits have ‘em (and hate em), the Germans have em the Rooskies have em .
That’s why Randy Newman wrote I Love LA (hint: wasn’t about riding around town in his clanking 19th century light rail car) !!!