
Everyone should ride on Greyhound at least once… (37)

Because nothing in life is free, the advent of cheap fares came with some less celebrated changes. Denser seat layouts, inconvenient flight times, no meals, fewer attendants, connecting rather than nonstop flights. But passengers showed they were willing to sacrifice comfort to save money, and within a year, almost every major airline had…
Some high
Scott Keyes • Take More Vacations: How to Search Better, Book Cheaper, and Travel the World
the sand and the road-side bombs. And this also despite the fact that my plan to choose my accommodation by price – starting with the cheapest hotel and following the deals until I've stayed along the entire strip – means that the start of my month-long trip was always going to be something of a crapshoot.
Paul Carr • We'll Always Have The Flamingo: 33 Dry Nights Along The Las Vegas Strip
Abolish Amtrak
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Note that I didn’t say that cities should build bus networks that maximize access to jobs. I said they should maximize access to destinations. That’s because more than two-thirds of transit trips (and four-fifths of all trips) are noncommute trips.10 For this reason, there are usually more people who use the bus in a city than decisionmakers realiz
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