Tipster alumnus from down under Tao Tan passed along a helpful reminder that starting today until February 10th, all NJ Transit tickets will be free with a student ID and this coupon.
Bon voyage.
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4 February 2008 @ 11:02 AM · 21 comments
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NB: Chinatown bus is still the best way to get to Philadelphia.
Just in time to vote tomorrow. And chinatown bus is only better if it leaves when it’s supposed to.
Chinatown bus is the biggest sketch show in modern American transportation. It’s still Greyhound or Amtrak for me.
Clearly, you haven’t used Amtrak outside the Northeast Corridor. Trying to get from the East Coast to the Midwest is damn-near impossible to do in a timely fashion. New York to Detroit has taken me 26 and 28 hours, Washington to Detroit has taken 20 hours. Each takes about 10 hours by car, 12-13 by Greyhound and 2 by plane. If the Chinatown bus went to the Midwest I’d be on that all the time.
Obviously, I meant the Northeast. If I lived in Chicago or Detroit, I’d fly.
amtrak is basically free. here’s why. most of the long haul trains run around 75 bucks a leg, and are almost always late. here’s the secret. if its late, call up and bitch and you get a 75 dollar voucher. playing your cards right, you almost never have to pay for amtrak. obviously though if you don’t have a good book or a whole season of whatever to watch, it can be a hellish time.
If the Japanese ran Amtrak, you’d be able to travel from New York to Chicago by train in three hours.
Chinatown is sketchy but it’s worth the price. It’s regularly less than 1/2 the price of Greyhound or comparable transportations. Chinatown is 35$ to DC round-trip but it’s 80$ for Greyhound. Chinatown buses are also clean, if you choose to ride on the decent ones. Just be a wise consumer.
Also, don’t talk to people and try to enjoy the screeching Peking opera / nonsensical kung-fu movies they always seem to be showing.
You must be getting ripped off terribly. I go between Washington and New York on Greyhound regularly and I pay $35 round trip. Amtrak at its cheapest is $120 round trip between those two points, yet still (at least in my opinion), faster, more comfortable, and more convenient than the bus, especially if you’re traveling on holidays when the Turnpike and Lincoln Tunnel are parking lots.
I was coming back to New York LaGuardia from Chicago once via AA (may their bellies be roasted in hell) and it was announced an hour in advance that my flight would be delayed. So I stood by for a Chicago to Philly flight, caught that, then took the train to New York from Philly and STILL got to Columbia before my original flight landed. Ergo, in a trip from Chicago to New York, NJ Transit beat an airline.
is ttan still on this website?!
for some reason, maybe the way he was always spouting off arrogantly, I would think tao might have something better to do. Apparently not.
me *heart* ttan long time! good price!
actually,
If the Japanese ran Amtrak it would take 4h14 from NYC to Chi
If the French ran Amtrak it would take a mere 3h59 !
Which is way faster than security + flying
the train would smell.
been on an amtrak train in winter? they stink.
I, as a native New Yorker, tip my hat, for once, to New Jersey. Go New Jersey!
The P2P circulator is the best. It’s basically the chinatown bus, but it goes from Penn Station to 30th street, and its $25 round trip – only $5 more!
NJT is more enjoyable but slower and more $$$. And Amtrak is monopolistic, bureaucratic, and expensive, but you’ll get there late!
Vamoose, or any other bus service run by Jews and driven by sketchy slavs is clearly the best way to move cheaply.
That would be sick if we added a bullet train between NY and Chicago. That would bring in so much revenue. 4 hours is decent…for Chicago it’d be worth it.