Re: Question for old timers
- From: AES <siegman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:23:28 -0700
In article <siegman-0F8E49.08504824042008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
AES <siegman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not travelled much on the trains in the UK then i take it :-)
Nope, fortunately I haven't had to. Maybe some day your social system
will catch up to those in Germany and other parts of Europe. :-)
Occurred to me just after I posted this that it might come across as a
bit snippy toward the UK -- not intended to be so, or at least I'm
probably no more critical of UK public services and mores than is the
OP.
And, I might note that my wife, and then my wife and granddaughter, took
Amtrak from San Francisco to Truckee/Lake Tahoe twice last winter
(except you can't go from SF, you have to drive over into the wilds of
Oakland somewhere; and when you reach Truckee you're still 40 minutes
from the Lake).
Pleasant and fun trips both times --- but over a distance that you can
drive in a little over 3 hours, Amtrak has a 5 or 6 hour published
schedule. and managed to arrive several hours later than that both
times.
Hoping that someday US public services will also catch up to those in
Europe :-)
.
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