Wednesday, March 22, 2023
No train for you!
Here we see Eleanor Roosevelt traversing LaGuardia Airport in New York, exhibiting the same attitude as nearly everyone else who has done the same.
Yes, LaGuardia is not a complete hole any more-- a recent refurbishing makes it seem more like a place for humans. But getting too and from LaGuardia is, sadly, going to stay about the same. New York State has shot down a plan to extend the subway to LaGuardia or build a special Air Train for it. Instead, the state says, you can take a bus!
I've taken a bus from LaGuardia, the Q70. It was slow and bad and kind of dumped us off in the middle of an intersection. We are often told that we should like busses better than trains, but that is just because they are cheaper. It's not hard to figure out why people like trains more than busses:
-- Trains don't get stuck in traffic.
-- You know where a train is going (that "Midnight train going anyyyy where" is not a real thing, because trains have to stay on a track)
-- Trains don't seem to just show up at random times the way busses do (especially in New York).
-- We all know that the plural of "train" is "trains." But no one is really sure how many s's should go in the plural of "bus."
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