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Re:End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditiona... by alexhutcheson on Sunday September 22, 2019 @09:58AM (#21041374)
The boarding process at major stations (New York Penn, Washington Union Station, sometimes Philly) is so frustrating and unnecessary. It forces passengers to get there early to line up, and makes dwell times super long. There are lots of little operational things like this that Amtrak could improve.
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Re:End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditiona... by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday September 22, 2019 @11:15AM (#21041717)
The trick with NY Penn is to just go down to the NJ transit level. Same platforms. No lines.
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Re:End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditiona... by _rs on Sunday September 22, 2019 @12:48PM (#21042337)
Could you expand on this a bit? Might be traveling via Amtrak soon to/from Penn and would like to make the experience a bit smoother. I've been on NJT once before but didn't notice anything about Amtrak on those platforms.
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Re:End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditiona... by alexhutcheson on Sunday September 22, 2019 @12:50PM (#21042350)
https://slate.com/business/2013/07/train-travel-the-penn-sta...
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Re:End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditiona... by alexhutcheson on Sunday September 22, 2019 @12:20PM (#21042136)
They turned off the displays on that level that used to show the Amtrak track numbers, so now you have to wait upstairs and then go down.
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Re:End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditiona... by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday September 22, 2019 @12:25PM (#21042169)
On the NJT screens too? Amtrack track assignments still show on the DepartureVision web site.
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Re:End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditiona... by ghaff on Sunday September 22, 2019 @10:28AM (#21041500)
It’s not clear to me why the seats on the “all reserved” Acela at least are not actually reserved as on most trains of this type. Penn is also just kind of a mess generally although it is slowly improving.
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