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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 2533135" data-attributes="member: 259">Oh, I have--I'm guessing YOU'Ve never travelled on American railways before <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  You describe a system that is chronically late and slow.  I'm describing a system that is nonexistent.Well, not nonexistent in the US, but nonexistent in my region.  There's no passenger rail service within 100 miles of me, I believe, and probably none within 150 miles of me.  The only buses that run between me and my destination don't run at the hours I'd need them to run at--I'd need to stay at school overnight if I wanted to take the Greyhound--and the rates would probably far exceed the cost of gasoline even at these times.If I had to get to the station at 6 in order to make a class at eight (given that I could drive the same distance in an hour), I'd gladly do so:  I could use that time to do homework, nap, or read.As it is, gas prices here are projected to go up up to $4/gallon, assuming we don't run out of gas entirely--there have been runs on local pumps, along with rumors that gas won't be delivered to our region until sometime next week.  I use about three gallons a day, three days a week; that'll represent my paying about $144 a month just for my school commute, not counting my (much shorter) work commute and running errands.  That means that my gasoline bills, by themselves, will probably exceed 10% of my and my wife's monthly post-tax income <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />.Daniel</blockquote>

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