Over the past few months, I have become a frequent DC-NYC commuter, and though I would love to cut my transit time and risk of getting stuck in traffic, I pay about a third of the cost to take a Greyhound roundtrip from Union Station to Port Authority and back than what I would need to pay to take the Northeast Regional train one way. And I can’t even consider the Acela Express.
The government-subsidized corporation Amtrak is quite frankly out of my league. Meanwhile, it costs 30 euros to hop on a Trenitalia train from Venezia St. Lucia to Milano Centrale. The distance is a bit less, but that’s still less than $40 to go from Venice to Milan. Continue reading “7 Reasons Why the United States Needs to Embrace Trains”
anchored & adrift 