Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Going to Usenix?
Message-ID: <3352@looking.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 21:54:12 GMT
References: <3336@looking.UUCP> <266@sickkids.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <266@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) writes:
>The train leaves Toronto at 9:40 AM ........
>arrive Baltimore (downtown, not some wretched airport miles from where
>you actually want to be) at 7:00 AM.
>
>Total fare (including a roomette on the overnight segments) is US$276,

Is this a joke?  Unless you really love the train, it must be.  The
Piedmont full-fare flight from Buffalo to Balt/Wash (a short $6 
bus ride from downtown Balt) is $310 or something, return, full fare.

I'm flying the $176 because I will drive an extra 60 miles to save over
$100 USD (I guess I'm cheap) and I also have some things to do in
Washington.   But I can't imagine taking a 22 hour train ride to save
over the direct flight or to spend more than the flight to Dulles.

Of course, coming from Waterloo, where it's 50 minutes to YYZ and 1:30
to BUF, I don't see as much of a difference between the two as somebody
in Toronto might.

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473