Comment by ghaff
1 day ago
I've taken a "luxury" bus from the Boston area to NY once. I'll stick to Amtrak although, given where I live, it's not very efficient. Boston area to DC really takes too long though I've done it.
I hate driving into NYC though I've done it with someone else (or because I was headed somewhere else afterwards). As you say, with multiple people, the numbers don't really pencil out--especially given it takes longer for me.
I do BOS-NYC occasionally. Have driven, taken the train, and have taken a bus. The train was fine, but the bus was also fine, was far cheaper and the bus terminal is just as central in Manhattan.
I'm using the RTE station as opposed to BOS proper. Driving would still be faster/cheaper in general. But then I'd have to drive into Manhattan.
It makes me so mad that we have a rail system that has all the structural necessities to make HSR a reality, yet we're stuck with service that last looked modern 50 years ago. If there's one place in the USA that would have the ridership to support a HSR it would be the Boston-DC metro axis.