Month: February 2016
Spent seven hours hanging out with Grace. I ate all my favorite foods, bought my favorite products from Lush, got some weed, finally bought my sparkle lights for my room, and just talked and talked and talked about race and dating and relationships and Portland and adulting and everything and I’m just…full. A good full. A positive full. I put it all the into the universe. I’m going to okay.
7 School presentations that kept it too real
Standard
A map of about every primary passenger railway in the USA for 2016, commuter rail included.
Surely there are more trains lines about than this ?!
Nope. We’re animals. I’ve only trailed by train twice in the U.S., and it was the same line, once DC to Philadelphia, and once DC to NYC for work once I discovered the train was two hours faster than flying and cabbing back into NYC.
I do forget though that you guys fly everywhere and trains might not be practical. I live on an island the size of one of your states !
Fun fact: the busiest railway station in America (Penn Station in New York City) gets fewer passengers than Liverpool Central.
I knew the US had a much less extensive rail infrastructure than us, but bloody hell, the fact that there are ENTIRE STATES that literally don’t have passenger rail is madness.
I’d still love to travel on it some time, mind.
Just imagine the jobs you could create by building a decent railway system!
Behold, the end result of graft and political corruption.
I had no idea most of the US had no regional lines? Like, I live in tiny little MA with one of those clusters of red. Does everybody else have to DRIVE???
yes. we drive. and it’s terrible.
Oh wow
I
didn’t know it was that sparse
and
i live here
The last two cities/metropolitan areas I’ve lived in have combined populations of about 6.5 million people and 0 passenger train lines going to either of them. *sighs*