I want high-speed trains, too, but the conventional wisdom in Congress seems to be that trains are a boondoggle while roads and airports are an infrastructure investment. Sigh.
Bah. Bullet trains rock! Thus sayeth I.
Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.
'Bring On The Night'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Jessica - Nov 28, 2005 8:01:16 am PST #6532 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Betsy HP - Nov 28, 2005 8:02:32 am PST #6533 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
So say we all, but the problem is that bullet trains make more sense in a smaller country. *Everybody* needs to go from Tokyo to whatever; millions of Americans will never use Washington-New York, LA-San Francisco, and so on.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 28, 2005 8:13:12 am PST #6534 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I rode Amtrak last May from Boston to Washington. It was essentially on time, but price was twice what a flight taking a third of the time would have been (up from the 133% price I'd been quoted in an unpleasant little surprise) and customer service was abominable.
Betsy HP - Nov 28, 2005 8:15:12 am PST #6535 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Then again, I flew over Thanksgiving, and the customer service was consistently wretched except in first class (which I got at a normal fare, don't ask me how.) Rotten customer service is the American way.
Nilly - Nov 28, 2005 8:23:28 am PST #6536 of 10001
Swouncing
Rotten customer service is the American way.
Hee. In Israel people always complain about the lousy customer service, usually ending it up with "in the USA it would never have happened. Why can't we be more like them?".
Katie M - Nov 28, 2005 8:23:33 am PST #6537 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Favorite flight attendant comment of the weekend, on a Delta flight showing March of the Penguins:
"I didn't even know penguins laid eggs!"
§ ita § - Nov 28, 2005 8:24:32 am PST #6538 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where is the land of the great customer service? Somewhere in Europe, I'm thinking, on the continent.
Somewhere I've never been, surely.
Aims - Nov 28, 2005 8:25:48 am PST #6539 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Where is the land of the great customer service?
6.5 nautical miles due east of the LOST island, I'm guessing.
Betsy HP - Nov 28, 2005 8:26:45 am PST #6540 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Where is the land of the great customer service?
Chez Panisse and Nordstrom lingerie fitting. (I don't know if CP fits bras, but I'm sure they'd do a great job.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 28, 2005 9:07:53 am PST #6541 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Where is the land of the great customer service? Somewhere in Europe, I'm thinking, on the continent.
Definitely not Paris, judging from friends who've travelled there. Perhaps Amsterdam?