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For a while, there was a Flixbus that went to Corvallis and Eugene that left at 8 PM, slightly after the 7:30 departure to Sacramento. I took that Flixbus regularly. And on that route, the driver was much more pleasant and professional. That Flixbus route, which stops in Seattle, Olympia...

There was one thing I was trying to find a way to say earlier, both in this thread, and in the thread I made about the economics of low cost airlines. Some of the discussions went into the weeds a bit, but I've found a single phrase to simplify my position: There is no such thing as a free...

Two trains are sold out, and based on the prices, the other ones are very close. The Amtrak Cascades seems to be doing very well--- and I wonder how that compares to other state-supported corridor routes, like are the Amtrak corridor routes in Northern and Southern California, and around...

Well, I did find out a few things after that! One of the key things being that only three buses a day go to the end of the route. I didn't want to get on at the other stop because I thought those buses would be going up the mountain. I later found out that would not be the case. Another thing...

Here is another one where I actually ride a train! So, important news about this thread: in two weeks, I will be back in the United States. Actually, less than two weeks! There is some trepidation about that, of course, travelling is always stressful. So this might be the last video where I...

That makes me sad---when I was 16, I used to ride from Salem to Portland to visit friends on Greyhound. I felt like quite the world traveller at the time! At the time, I remember it being about $7 for a Greyhound ticket between the cities. Easy to go and pop off and have an adventure! I also...

Yes, which means that Flixbus drivers are never Flixbus employees, while Greyhound drivers are. So Greyhound is more Flix than Flix. (Unless Greyhound drivers are also subcontractors, at this point).

I have actually taken a few trips that involve taking the trains here---but no reason to share those videos, since they are mostly things I covered already. This video doesn't involve a train---but it does involve rail history, and transit. This is a trip to Atenas (Athens), a small town...

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/cheap-flights-bay-area-western-cities-18682280.php This article talks about it more. $62 flights, with a 150 seat aircraft. I imagine that the Salem and Pasco flights might be for people visiting Portland/the Columbia River Gorge, respectively. Are there...

One of the things that I had problems articulating in this thread, and also in another thread about the 737 door incident, was that shifting around the costs of a businesses operation don't make those costs go away. And then I remembered that there is a really obvious way to express this...

One technical note: as far as I know, Whitefish and Kalispell have one commercial airport between them, the Glacier Park International Airport. But while I can't know every factor of the economics and logistics of running an airline, the idea of an airline's business model being flying between...

Flixbus's business with Greyhound reminds me of the quote from Jurassic Park "God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs" Flixbus buys Greyhound. Greyhound becomes Flixbus. Flixbus destroys Greyhound. Or something like that. Is this...

Is one of the 0800 Flixbuses rebranded from being a Greyhound, or is it just a doubling of FB service, and is there even a difference between the two anymore?

Although there is maybe a chance that some of these routes will be shortened if this ever comes to actuality.

Some of these routes look way more feasible than others. Dallas and Houston are two metropolitan areas that are about 250 miles apart---and each has about 7 million people, and there are no major terrain barriers between them. So it seems totally feasible that those two cities would have...

And there are also 200,000 people in Deschutes County, as opposed to 50,000 people in Lincoln County. I would say that Deschutes is also a major tourist destination---but then, so is the Oregon Coast. But 200,000 versus 50,000 makes a big difference.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/02/17/newport-oregon-passenger-air-service/ In my "travel around the Willamette Valley" thread, I showed how hard it could be to transfer laterally on to the Amtrak Cascades. Sometimes this was just due to transit being not a big cultural part of many...

Since this was the entire point of my trip to Limon, I better post this video---it is pretty long, though! This video talks about, and shows, a lot of things. Limon has a complicated history, and much of it is rail related. While some of this video just shows the natural beauty of the city, with...

I am not saying that the NYC metro area is the exact shape and size of the Netherlands, just that if we were to compare the Netherlands (for rail purposes) to something, it would make more sense to compare it to a small East Coast state, or to an extended metro area, then to compare it to the...

And this is where it is hard to make comparisons, I feel, because you have different types of rail. If I were to compare the Netherlands to something, for example, I would just compare it to the NYC metro area. If you look at the Netherlands on a map, the entire country is about as big as...