Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture

Re:Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Pi... by badfrog on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:15PM (#21186571)

> Every day, one train leaves New York City, travels through the Adirondacks, and ends up in Montreal. Another train follows the opposite route daily.

One train per day isn't exactly convenient. And once you get off the train, you still somehow need to get to the trail head.

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Re:Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Pi... by CydeWeys on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:45PM (#21186801)

For what it's worth, there's a super popular hiking spot 1.5 hours outside of NYC called Breakneck Ridge that is only served by a few MetroNorth trains per day (and only on weekends and holidays). And yet when I went there were MANY people doing it. That trailhead is close to the train station which is why it's so popular, but if it weren't, there's always Lyft/Uber.

These are city-dwellers who don't own cars doing these hikes, so "driving your own car" isn't even an option. Renting a car for the day/weekend is, but that's much more expensive than round-trip train tickets.

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Re:Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Pi... by badfrog on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:54PM (#21186866)

Yeah, it's great that these options exist. I've taken Metro North to hike on Mount Beacon before. But I still wouldn't say it's more convenient than a car.

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Re:Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Pi... by CydeWeys on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:16PM (#21187012)

It's not more convenient than a car that one day of the month, but not having a car is definitely more convenient the other 30 days of the month. Owning a car in NYC is super inconvenient and expensive.

Although I will say, the drive isn't that much faster than the train ride. And driving is dead time, whereas train riding time isn't.

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