Is it better to travel by train or plane when there is risk of snow in the eastern US?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 27 Jul, 2023
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1/3/2012 10:07:58 PM
Here’s my take, which isn’t actually based on anything empirical as much as about a decade living on the East Coast:
If you’re along the Acela corridor, served by the Acela Express and the Northeast Regional lines, your best bet is probably the train. This is rooted by two experiences:
- Boston Logan is built out in what is essentially the Atlantic Ocean. It also has delays and closures at the drop of a hat. I hated flying out of Logan in the winter.
- During the massive snow emergency last year (Winter 2010) in the Eastern U.S., the trains kept running long after the airports shut down. One train I was on was indeed crowded with people from canceled airline flights trying to make it to their destinations, and it was so apparent that Amtrak actually ran a print ad campaign in some East Coast cities about it.
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