Re: Lost your home? Car? Everything? Thank a bicyclist and the California road diet.

Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com> writes:

On 1/21/2025 12:38 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/21/2025 11:12 AM, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:07:20 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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On 1/21/2025 7:01 AM, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:48:33 +0100, Rolf Mantel
<news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:
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San Francisco or Oakland to LA is only an hour on commercial
aircraft. The same to Las Vegas and only a half hour more to Arizona
and only a half hour more than that to Denver. Trains simply do not
work with the distances between major cities in the US. Too bad, I
do like railroads.

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On the contrary, exactly those are the distances that work on
high- speed
trains.  "One hour on commercial aricraft" means a total
travelling time
of approx. three hours "city-center to city-center"; a "2:40 non-stop
travel time" by train as planned on completion of phase 1 would
kill the
air market completely.

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    I agree. You waste over an hour going to the airport and
passing through the secret state police. And when you reach your
destination, it's usually at least 30 mins to the center of town. Two
wasted hours.
    I presume train passengers would not be subject to "homeland
insecurity" groping. Unless one of the CEO's from the "air market"
paid someone to plant a bomb. The usual "take me to Cuba" excuse would
not work.
    []'s

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That's not right.
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Here, the Stasi have infested the trains as well:
https://www.amtrak.com/tickets-id-safety-security

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    That's about crossing borders to another country. I think
that's reasonable. Lots of criminals try to avoid prosecution by
crossing borders .... over 100 of Bolsonaro's followers fled to the
US. I have no idea how they got permits, most of them do not work, and
many of them are criminals linked to drugs trafficking, prostitution,
money laundering and contraband.
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    I mean being searched to travel in your own country.... that
should not happen in a "free" country.

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I do not go to airports, and even to pick up or drop off
someone; I remain in my car in the parking area.

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    Well, I used to have to travel by plane.
    When traveling in Brazil I prefer 1) A train - if available.
There are very few passenger trains left
    2) A bus. They are usually comfortable and have air
conditioning.
    3) Ugggh a plane
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    That's if I have transport on the other end. If I don't, I
just drive there. Trouble is, I'm getting too old to drive. The most I
can stay awake is about 12 hours. Then I just curl up and go to sleep.
I've woken up in a stalled car twice in the last 10 years....
    []'s

Domestic Amtrak security protocols:
https://www.ncesc.com/does-amtrak-have-security-check/
 

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Well, that's not true at all. It may be a stated policy, but it's not
in use by any stretch of the imagination.
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My father likes to visit my sister in Georgia twice a year and is
partial to the Amtrak from Boston to Savannah (he transfers in either
new york, philidehphia, and DC, depending on the times he traveled)
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I drive him to the Amtrak station in Boston.  I help him with his
luggage to the platform, help him on the train, and make sure the
attendants understand his health issues. Upon his return I reverse the
process. We've been doing this for three years now (2x a year), and
not once has there ever been a security checkpoint or any attempt by
any TSA or Amtrak employees to screen him or me, check his or my ID,
or any attempt to restrict my movement in the terminal or getting on
the train even without a ticket. My sister has a similar experience in
Savannah.
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They may reserve the right to enforce some sort of security protocol,
but they haven't done it in either Boston or Savannah in the past 3
years.

That was my experience boarding in Albany as well.  I had brought a
passport thinking they might go all read-id on me, but in the event they
didn't check a thing.  Could change overnight, who knows.



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