How is the Sunset Limited performing for on time arrival in LA currently.
I ask as I'm putting a little schedule together for a vacation next year and I'm wondering how viable a two hour connection onto a Northbound Surfliner to Santa Barbara might be.
I know that a lot can happen between now and April 2008, and a lot can happen on the day, but a general isea would be useful.
According to www.amtrakdelays.com computing delays over the last three weeks, the average delay for #1 into LAX is 286 minutes. The least delay was 43 minutes, and the worst delay was 20 hours! On only three days of the last three weeks were delays under two hours. So chances are that a 2 hour window is inadequate to make the connection. By the schedule, however, the time between trains is closer to three hours, which offers better chances. If you can't make the 1:00pm Surfliner to SBA, chances are good that you can make the 3:25pm train.
Find out if Amtrak guarantees the connection. If they do, they are obliged to get you there one way or another. It might be by bus, but its only for about 100 miles.
Ooh!
Thanks, Mr. Toy. I did'nt know about the Amtrak delays website. Makes scary reading.
Luckily my plans are very flexible. I'm meeting an organised party in LA on May 2nd but have from April 25th to get there. I'm not in a desperate rush to go to Santa Barbara either: it's just that I've ridden the Surfliners to San Diego several times but I've never been North.
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