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Intermodal transit allows me to take the Metro to Union Station to get either a MARC Penn Line train or AMTRAK to BWI to catch a cheap Southwest flight in as little as 58 minutes from my apartment to the boarding gate.

And while AMTRAK often shines in bad weather (they do better than just about anyone when it snows), there are times - like this past weekend - when storms make the tracks impassable. 232 AMTRAK passengers were stranded on a train in Prince, West Virginia for 20 hours when fallen trees blocked the tracks. Their intermodal rescue was a number of buses that finally arrived to take them to Cincy and points west to Chicago. Being stuck on a stopped train for 20 hours may be no picnic, but I'd take it any day over being stuck on a plane for that length of time.

by Mike S. on Jul 6, 2012 3:06 pm • link • report

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