Step inside the sprawling factory in California where the largest fleet replacement in Amtrak’s 55-year history is coming together piece by piece.
Yeah maybe fix the prices first. I’d rather fly for the same cost.
Maybe I missed it but some of the longest routes don’t have internet. A number of people would take trains if they could work while on the trip.
Amtrak’s Coast Starlight line on the west coast has wifi, but it’s unusably glitchy. The trips I’ve taken haven’t been crowded, so I doubt it was an overuse issue. My guess is either the upstream connection is junk or the trains aren’t kitted out with hardware capable of meaningful QoS (either from misconfiguration or inability).
You would think they would drop a starlink and some wifi APs on every route for an easy win.
I didn’t see that in the article, though they did talk about electric outlets at every seat
Crap it seems like all the archive sites are gone. Anyone have a full version of this article?
Amtrak is a joke, and Biden should have done more about it when he had the chance. It’s shameful we don’t have a modern high speed rail network in the US.
Amtrak is a joke,
Yes.
It’s shameful we don’t have a modern high speed rail network in the US.
Again, true.
and Biden should have done more about it when he had the chance.
Yeah, I’m in agreement with @NOT_RICK in that Biden was stymied by popular opinion and richbitch protest to not spend on things like infrastructure because he was too busy dumping money into the disaster-du-jour caused by chronic insufficient investment in infrastructure and healthcare … again, prevented by richbitch politicos reframing everything as "taking money out of the hands of the middle class for some boondoggle like heathcare. “Who in Louisiana or North Dakota even USES I-5, anyway?” and similar bad-faith arguments.
Wouldn’t the president need congress to appropriate money for that? What would you have liked him to do?
He claimed to be some big champion of Amtrak. Presidents often push for “moonshots” but he barely did anything about it while in office. That’s why I specifically mentioned him.
who cares about trains if there’s no track to run them on.
