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With a car, you can go point to point. With a train, you have to arrange transportation to the station on both ends. Also, you can leave when you want, you don'
by paul_f 6y ago
With a car, you can go point to point. With a train, you have to arrange transportation to the station on both ends. Also, you can leave when you want, you don't have to time your travel with the train or plane schedule or worry about delays and cancellations. To me, up to 6 hours, a car almost always makes sense. Above 6, usually a plane. Rarely does a train beat out both alternatives.
- pc86 6y agoThe only time I've found the train beneficial for me is rural/suburban -> urban travel, where the train ride itself is about 3 hours. I live in the middle of nowhere and have gone to NYC via train many times. The train is about 20 minutes longer than driving, I don't have to drive in NYC, and I can park at the rural train station for $5/day. Now granted that could very easily go out the window if there are strict time constraints around when I can travel, and I end up driving because I can leave when I need to, and it's actually faster. Agreed though that car or plane beats train 99% of the time.