Recent content by Alexandria Nick

And despite that, KCVG serves 7.5 million passengers, down from a whopping 22 million in 2005. You can't really draw a relationship between a transport hub passenger load and the population of the location.

There's also a lot of "where are you building" involved. Gotthard Base is a clean bore through basement rock thousands of meters below the mountaintops. Counterintuitively, that's easier than a shallow bore in the geological mess that is Eastern North America east of the Fall Line under a...

Southwest merged with AirTran (formerly ValuJet).

The Beltway isn't nearly as intimidating or heavily trafficked as people make it out to be. 66 is far worse.

I'm in my early 40s and coach overnight is....unappealing to me. Napping for a few hours? Done that. Overnight though? Ehhhh. Conversely, my late 60s parents did a grand loop around the country in coach and didn't bat an eye at it.

You got the short end of the stick because two things worked against you without your knowledge. Savannah has a flat airport rate: $28. They can also charge you a "waiting fee," which they claim for their time waiting for passengers at the train station. That fee? $25. So, you can easily...

Also, for comparison, the Hindenburg was carrying enough hydrogen to fuel the entire 25 set FLIRT fleet 24 times, so results may vary.

That's the rub: the commuting patterns in the Pittsburgh region don't really fit the existing tracks. Employment is broadly distributed, with downtown only accounting for a small portion of the workforce. Aside from the 28 corridor up the Allegheny, the main commuter trunks don't match up with...

Because it is DC. You throw a rock and hit something that's been designated for historical preservation. The rock probably was too.

You are actually describing who I'd target. I don't really care about repeat business (although there would be some), only capturing the numbers of people who are shipping or driving themselves across country. It could be a symptom of living in the DC area, but I know a remarkable number of...

It isn't the air temp that's important. It is the temperature that the object is heated to. For instance, the air temp can be around 85 to 90, but on an astroturf field, the surface temperature can be closer to 170 to 175. I don't know what railroad tracks heat like. You've got a long string...

The way I look at it, the important bit isn't exactly the snowbirds or whatever. I don't care what the why is. I look at where people are paying to ship cars. There's a lot of car carriers going up and down 95 that are carrying NY and FL plates on their cargo cars. So obviously there's demand to...

It also doesn't really change the core matter that the majority of people just aren't carrying enough baggage or checking it. You could probably get away with no baggage at all on most trains off the NEC.

Besides, the majority of passengers aren't traveling with much more than their carry on allowance anyhow.

No, there's far too much work to do now, so that's long gone as an option. I presume that keeping the old PRR station fit with the needs of 1971 more than the P&LE station. I'm pretty sure there was no connection between what is now the Mon Line and the Pittsburgh Sub anyhow. But in the long...