• 7bicycles [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Gonna be honest here the Auto train is an incredibly dumb idea born out of car consumerism. There's absolutely no need to ferry a lot of cars somewhere on a train inherently, they could just have cars there you could rent

    I get the economics of this, car rentals are expensive and all, but it's not a good idea generally

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      Yeah it’s not really something that makes sense en masse, there’s a reason Amtrak runs it as a specialty line to a tourism hot spot. Point is, if it was absolutely necessary and personal vehicle rental wasn’t an option at the destination station, the option is on the table.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Or you could just have a bus station integrated with the rail station.