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[quote user="motard98"]McCain will be the next president IMO and that's a good thing[/quote]As long as you consider a four-to-eight more years of anti-Amtrak hostility a good thing... [quote]Does Acela beat flying trip times? [/quote]Yes, it does - if you keep in mind that DC Union Station, NYC Penn Station, and Boston South Station are all in central city areas, while airports are rather at the outskirts.  Who need speed the most?  Business travelers.  Other people would look for cheaper options, that is a bus, especially a Chinatown bus. In fact, given that the distance is not very long, even bus makes it pretty fast, but the level of service on it is not up to business standards.  So, besides the speed, Acela offers premium level of service, and other NEC trains, too, have higher standard of service than buses and, possibly, even airlines.[quote]You really think that if SEPTA, NJT, MBTA, VRE, MARC, Metro, NYCTA and MNRR stopped running tomorrow that the NEC would remain as prosperous?[/quote]Here you're right.  Commuter carriers do help Amtrak fund the old NEC infrastructure.  And they are not slowing down Amtrak trains at all. First of all, commuter trains have passenger-oriented schedules, just like Amtrak.  Secondly, Amtrak owns most of the NEC, so it has freedom to give priority to its own trains, but there's no need to do it.  Even on the Metro North's Hudson Line, which is a part of Amtrak's Empire Corridor, there are no problems with commuter trains.  Even if, by some chance, Metro North decides to give some priority to its train, rather than Amtrak's, remember that a commuter train is different from a freight train.  It may take extra two or three minutes from Amtrak, not 10-15 minutes.  [quote]Exactly how much parking is there at NYP?[/quote]Well, NYP may not have a dedicated parking lot, but it has more transit services than any of the airports.
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