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I'll ballpark about 10% of the UK total. NYC metro heavy rail commuters probably being the largest chunk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_commuter_rail_systems_by_ridership I had forgotten Nashville had a line and was totally unaware of Salt Lake and the lesser lines in the...

What time is #29 really scheduled to depart PGH? The timetable says 11:59PM but I am of the thought that is to get the passengers to the station on the correct day. Also is the station staff currently holding bags for passengers without checking them? I am considering a trip connecting off of...

California Zephyr, SAC to RNO. An elderly woman traveling solo boards with me at SAC, I notice that she has provisioned herself with a bottle of cheap vodka and is taking hits from it in the station and I end up a few rows from her in coach. She continues imbibing throughout, good for her. I...

Loyalty programs, in the travel industry at least, are designed to induce incremental spend - the no status traveler doing extra trips or more expensive trips to get to that first ring. Higher levels are also to get that additional business but also to counter the "I did all this and I get...

from usps.com TERMINAL ANNEX FINANCE 900 N ALAMEDA ST LOS ANGELES, CA 90012-2904 Mon-Fri8:30am - 5:30pm Sat8:30am - 3:00pm SunClosed I highly suggest checking hours closer to your travel as there is another round of consolidations coming beginning in March.

The tiered aspect is interesting, Hyatt is doing the same. I wonder if Points.com is doing research to see how wide we will open our wallets. I am sitting on more AGR than I can purposefully consume this year so am going to pass and maybe top up with a sale closer to year end, I can survive if...

Excellent, my travel plans have me on the rails NYP-PHL-LNC for the NTD. Now how many segments can I break that into to qualify for maximum bonus points? :P

Lancaster had an actual uniformed red cap on duty for at least the Thanksgiving and Christmas rush. Not sure if this is a permanent thing or just a PHL extra.

I applied for a non transportation position last year, notification after confirmation of submission seems to only go out if Amtrak show a further interest in you. Not really the most personal but as the application process is entirely online, I can imagine it can't be too hard for an over...

Just short of the points for a one zone roomette from this. I do have to wonder if this was intentional or the mall operator owned up to their mistake in a timely manner.

Economy parking at the airport is $8/day and there are coupons and AAA discounts that bring it down to $6/day. There is a bus from the airport to downtown that runs roughly hourly during daylight hours, $2 I think. A taxi from CVG to downtown should be $25-30 if I remember correctly. I would...

I looked into the Summit run, the Metra schedule really doesn't supplement all that much, the station is a bus shelter in a small park in a residential neighborhood. Multicity on Keystone is genius. Could probably do both an east and westbound multicity and just shuffle around the burbs...

16.3 cents per Rail Point, higher than I expected. I still need to tally some recent travel to get my 2012 miles, total spend of $482 including accomodations for travel and $275 to buy points.

I made the walk down there tonight, the limited bus service had ended for the night so it was just me and the custodial staff. The station embodies Saint Paul to me as a non-native, understated and functional grandeur. While the headhouse is the focal point there are nooks and crannies leading...

http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/license_plates/plate-train-large.shtml $15 per plate, annually I believe, goes to PA museums.