The Dude wrote:wow, i use like 2 weeks

jerseyhoya wrote:

The Dude wrote:wow, i use like 2 weeks

Calvin's mom does his laundry

You're drying yourself off after you shower, how dirty can they get?

pacino wrote:how many goddamn towels do you have? or how few showers do you take?

phatj wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:28 million people rode Amtrak last year. 250,000 people commute on the Northeast Corridor every day, and it's not because they find trains "neat". It's because the vector of time, money and convenience works for them. It's not part of your lifestyle,fine, but it's still out there and being used, and saving you time if you're driving up the turnpike or waiting at the airport.

I wanted to revisit this.

These numbers seem so small as to be utterly insignificant in the commuting big picture. I have no actual numbers to support this, but I would imagine that the number of automobile passengers exceeds both those by a couple orders of magnitude. So in order for Amtrak or whoever to actually make a dent in road and/or airport congestion they would have to make massive increases in ridership, which would presumably require a huge drop in price and/or a huge increase in fuel costs (the latter of which might affect Amtrak's prices, of course, though economies of scale help here).