Re:My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
by tptacek on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:19PM
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The point of the exercise is to look at air passenger statistics to get a broad sense of what the high watermark of usage would be, since air travel is the dominant way of navigating the continental US.
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Re:My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
by pdonis on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:33PM
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> air travel is the dominant way of navigating the continental US.
That's because, even with all its faults, averaged over all travelers it beats the heck out of all the other alternatives for trips that would take more than a few hours by car or train. Scalzi's experience, as messed up as it was, is an outlier.