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No. But their drug test is going to pop positive anyways. That's the exact heart of the issue, there isn't a way to chemically measure impairment like there is for alcohol where there is a direct correlation between BAC and impairment level (ignoring the pain of driving with a hangover).

...or the schedule problems in AL are resolved. That will hinge upon Amtrak getting a "big stick" with success further south in AL.

Fortunately, The Internet does! Let's look at number of collisions and deaths as a result over time: Wow, you're right - there is a huge change over time! (but if you look at the tiny numbers at the bottom, the x-axis is reversed, so 2021 is at the left - looks like both collisions and...

While I advocated on behalf of the blind earlier, it's a fair assumption that this particular truck driver probably wasn't blind and thus could have seen the train land before it started on the horn.

People with vision impairments wave and say "hi". I would love to see actual data on train/vehicle collisions adjusted for vehicle miles travelled over time to back up your claim that collisions are more common now because people are worse.

That's a pipe dream with little chance of actually occurring. Meanwhile, if you fix the root cause of the delays, you can make the train better for everyone. Looking at the year to date data: This train's in bad shape in Alabama. Solve the problem there and everyone wins. (incidentally...

His point sailed over your head. You’re focused on delays at Atlanta and points north. The cause of those delays are on the other side of Atlanta. It’s not like the train arrives on time in Atlanta and then sits there for hours.

Generally, you are correct. In this specific case several windows had to be broken out https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/29/boy-scout-amtrak-train-derailment/?fbclid=IwAR37tRCvRydNo4gNhhLD8Ne_Anhtjn2_PiGdrqtKOHlGcvi-2Ayrn1heVno

You answered your own question there.

It's a lot harder to go talk to the engineer. ;)

This page has car layouts for Regional Business and Acela First. On the Regionals, the non-business car layouts are basically the same, there are just more seats. The luggage rack is at the top left in the grey box next to the restroom.

I don't have enough experience on an Acela to answer, but know that there is sufficient space at the end of the cars on the Northeast Regional trains to capture your gear. As for the rest of your questions, I don't think that Business Class would help in either of those areas. Personally, I...

Viewliners are rotated in NY so that cars that need to go south can hitch a ride. No reason the same couldn't happen for a single level Cap.

Would agree that the Cap is the right train. Don't really need the run through, any equipment that needs to head down can deadhead.

I'm going to buck the crowd and say that if you can move with all of your gear at once, there is no problem in taking the train. Regionals have space at the end of cars for bags, and you can make it work if you have a mind to do so.

Having travelled on split reservations and spoken with folks about what would happen, this is factually incorrect. You'd be treated just as any other misconnecting passenger.

We almost certainly are. The problem comes down to the fact that there is a correlation between BAC and level of impairment that doesn't exist for THC. This link has tons of entertaining reading on the topic...

The skepticism was that it went to something other than "operations, staff salaries, catching up a backlog of maintenance". If it all went to operations and staff salaries (because revenue dropped to near-zero there for a while), then it could have been all used on the first two without the...

How do you know that it didn't go to those things?