[78-L] ARSC^ [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

When I lived in DEnver - 1963-1995 - Stapleton Intl was about 5 mi, if that much, from downtown.  Pretty much a straight shot out East 32nd avenue.  They were just about to start the new airprot, with its circus-tent roof when I left.  [I shudder to thinque what will happen in the first really good blizzard!]  It's barely on the NE cornr of the map now,
reached via a you-can't-geet-there-from-here sort of route.  They graacciously allow 20 min 'free parking' to cover the 20 min it takes to get from the parking gate to anyplace where you can actually park....

This is called 'progress'.

Mike in Plovdiv 


























































--- On Thu, 5/5/11, Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:

> From: Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] ARSC^
> To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 3:20 PM
> Around 10 years ago I took the Lake
> Shore Limited from Boston to Chicago for
> a meeting.  I booked a private sleeper and it was such
> a nice trip.  I
> boarded in Boston at around 4:00 and, even though according
> to AMTRAK, the
> sleeper would not be available until later in the trip, I
> was guided to my
> private roomette.   I had a pleasant trip,
> rehearsed my presentation, read,
> listened to the walkman, ate and slept well, and the next
> morning at 10 or
> so, arrived in the center of Chicago, a 10 min. cab ride
> from my hotel.
> That's the way to travel.
> 
> Ron L
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]
> On Behalf Of Michael Biel
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:44 AM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] ARSC^
> 
> On 5/5/2011 12:22 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> > From: "Ron L'Herault"<lherault at bu.edu>
> >> No one goes by train any more.
> >>
> > Not quite true...although I am not sure if I can still
> travel to
> > Chicago by train!
> 
> We've lost so much of our train travel possibilities here
> in the U.S.  
> In other places EVERYBODY travels by train.  I've
> spent several Summers 
> in Europe going all over the continent by train.  You
> would think that 
> it would be a Conservative value to support good old
> fashioned train 
> travel, but it is the progressive areas like Europe, Japan,
> and even 
> China that support and continually improve their train
> travel.  It often 
> is much more convenient and even faster by train than by
> plane, 
> especially when the train takes you right into the center
> of town rather 
> than you having to drive two hours to the airport and fly
> East to get 
> your connecting flight to go West, and then have another
> long drive back 
> into town.  (And in Europe you can usually take a
> train to and from the 
> airport!)
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> .
> 
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