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As someone who hasn't been to New York in decades my main interaction with Penn Station has been the regular appearance of Amtrak's Kafkaesque Large Station Boa
by Steko 10y ago
As someone who hasn't been to New York in decades my main interaction with Penn Station has been the regular appearance of Amtrak's Kafkaesque Large Station Boarding Procedures as a whipping horse in Matt Yglesias blog posts [1, for example].Then I realized I hadn't seen one in awhile and maybe Amtrak changed to normal train boarding at major stations.
[1] http://www.vox.com/2014/3/31/5563600/everything-you-need-to-know-about-boarding-an-amtrak-train http://www.vox.com/2014/3/31/5563600/everything-you-need-to-...
- ghaff 10y agoNope. No change. However, to Yglesias' post I'd add that, in all fairness, the underground platforms at Penn are really too narrow to have people waiting for the train on the platform and then heading into an assigned car as is common in Europe. So whether or not they checked the ticket at the top of the escalator in Penn, there would still be something of a crush as people went down to the platform from the very congested boarding area. (What is a reasonable question is why Amtrak doesn't actually have reserved seating even on their "all reserved" trains like Acela.)