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Well, I started getting text alerts again today. Yesterday I had contacted FNBO at their online message center. Today, about 24 hours later, I got a reply: "There was a known issue earlier this week with customers not receiving text alerts for purchases made, but it should be resolved by...

Pizzeria Uno at Washington's Union Station has closed: https://www.popville.com/2025/01/pizzeria-uno-closed-dc-union-station/

Approximately two weeks ago, I stopped getting text alerts when I'd charged something on my AGR Mastercard. I've checked my account settings and I'm still opted in to text alerts; also, I'm positive that I didn't "override" that by (e.g.) replying "STOP" or marking a text as spam, actions that...

This is the old Yiddish "we lose money on every sale but make it up on volume" joke.:)

How could I forget: Pittsburgh's light rail system, the "T," has a free fare zone. It's not terribly easy to find on the ill-designed website, but a little more transparent once you descend into the station. "Stations between First Avenue and Allegheny are located inside the free fare zone...

My fault, Literalman...you were clear; I skimmed too fast. Though living in the DC area, I seldom get to Alexandria, and I hope both the no-fare policy and the beefed-up service have survived. The DC Circulator is an example of a local system, with a useful route map that intelligently...

This. Transit costs money to run. If the choice is between "free" and skimpy and unreliable, on the one hand, and farepaying and frequent and reliable on the other, I'd vote for the latter. Literalman, upthread, describes a local transit system (in Alexandria, a close-in suburb of DC) that was...

Economist here. Nothing is "free," the only question really is "who pays." Taking transit, rather than driving, creates tremendous social benefits ("externalities" in our jargon) by reducing pollution and congestion. Designed and run well, transit allows us to preserve our dense cities and...

This. Here's an example of padding on just one smallish and wee-hours segment of the Floridian. Snipped from the timetable at https://www.railpassengers.org/site/assets/files/20928/floridian.pdf: Do a little math and you can see that, eastbound, there's 20 minutes of "padding" between...

Washington Post story here (shared using my subscription, so you won't encounter a paywall, though you may have to enter an email address. Real or fake.) As one commenter noted, the passengers didn't miss their train, the train missed its passengers. Infuriating. https://wapo.st/3VYEFd0

You don't say when or how he succumbed, but this brought tears to my eyes. I recently compiled (with added historical and social context) and self-published my uncle's WWII letters home to his widowed mom and kid sister, my mother. My uncle returned. Many didn't. Families never forget.

So, the weight-loss supplement doesn't work? Bummer. :(

I'm not an evangelist and I don't go around saving souls, but I do use my AGR Mastercard a lot at (e.g.) farmers' markets and bakeries, and staff are sometimes intrigued to see a travel card that earns something besides airline miles. And they always say they love trains. Have I recruited a...

I cannot confirm that... But, I can confirm that the Uniqlo store has moved into the larger, former H&M space. I'm no fashionista but once or twice a year I buy black low-rise socks at Uniqlo. Life and laundry are easier when you own only one kind of socks.

Echoing MARC here. I don't know the rental-car situation at Cumberland, but I do know it in downtown Pittsburgh, and if The Train Formerly Known As the Cap Limited is on time, it'll chug in around 5 a.m. (eastbound) or midnight (westbound); and although several rental-car vendors have downtown...

I don't know the rental-car situation in Cumberland, MD... But, it's a quick hour drive from Cumberland to Morgantown on I-68 (old US-40, the "National Pike"), and The Train That I Will Stubbornly Continue to Call the Capitol Limited stops at Cumberland during reasonable times of day, both...

Caravanman, you are a good vigorous writer. And since the purpose (well, one purpose) of travel is to watch people not just scenery, hostels and buses and trains are the way to go. Thanks from the Yank.🇺🇸

Man, that really whets my appetite.🥔

Oooh, what a great surprise gift. And as an expert in actuarial science and demography, may I point out that your husband has a birthday...every year? So do you. ;) Enjoy!

On my bucket list: Oslo to Bergen, by https://www.vy.no/en/traffic-and-routes/stations-and-network-maps/the-bergen-line. Probably whetted by a PBS "Great Railway Journeys" episode, or train porn, as my family calls it. (They like trains but don't love 'em as we do...for us, taking a long...