1: Is there passenger rail service available where you live?
2: How far is the nearest airport with airline service?
3: Do you drive?
4: Given a choice of planes, trains or automobiles for a trip of 500 miles, what is your choice?
5: Have you traveled by long distance on a bus?
My answers:
1: Is there passenger rail service available where you live? Yes, the nearest Amtrak station is about a 1.5 miles from home.
2: How far is the nearest airport with airline service? About 5 miles.
3: Do you drive? Yes, often.
4: Given a choice of planes, trains or automobiles for a trip of 500 miles, what is your choice? For 500 miles, fly.
5: Have you traveled by long distance on a bus? Only once when I was a teenager.
Please share your answers in the comments.
1. Yes. Seven tram routes pass by with a stop in front of my building. A large railway station is five minutes away by tram and our major suburban station is ten minutes away by tram.
ReplyDelete2. A twenty minute drive if there isn't traffic congestion.
3. Yes, but point 1 will inform you that there is no need for me to drive often.
4. 500 miles is about 800 kilometres. If there is a decent train service, certainly by train. I detest airports.
5. The same as you and I think it was overnight and two full days. Never, ever again.