{"id":107457,"date":"2025-07-31T17:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=107457"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:43:18","slug":"especially-when-the-equivalent-train-ride-even-a-so-called-high-speed-one-would-be-a-minimum-of-50-sloweramtraks-acella-takes-between-245-and-300-to-get-from-dc-to-ny-a-savings-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=107457","title":{"rendered":"Especially when the equivalent train ride &#8211; even a so-called &#8220;high-speed&#8221; one &#8211; would be a *minimum* of 50% slower\n\n@Amtrak&#8217;s #Acella takes between 2:45 and 3:00 to get from DC to NY &#8211; a savings of 1-2h over a similar drive\n\nBut that ~6.5h drive from LA to The Bay Area? For pure https:\/\/t.co\/t4FwuH27pR"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Especially when the equivalent train ride &#8211; even a so-called &#8220;high-speed&#8221; one &#8211; would be a *minimum* of 50% slower<\/p>\n<p>@Amtrak&#8217;s #Acella takes between 2:45 and 3:00 to get from DC to NY &#8211; a savings of 1-2h over a similar drive<\/p>\n<p>But that ~6.5h drive from LA to The Bay Area? For pure https:\/\/t.co\/t4FwuH27pR<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1950975293952504227\">Jul 31, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>July 31, 2025 at 01:42PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Especially when the equivalent train ride &#8211; even a so-called &#8220;high-speed&#8221; one &#8211; would be a *minimum* of 50% slower @Amtrak&#8217;s #Acella takes between 2:45 and 3:00 to get from DC to NY &#8211; a savings of 1-2h over a similar drive But that ~6.5h drive from LA to The Bay Area? For pure https:\/\/t.co\/t4FwuH27pR &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=107457\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Especially when the equivalent train ride &#8211; even a so-called &#8220;high-speed&#8221; one &#8211; would be a *minimum* of 50% slower<\/p>\n<p>@Amtrak&#8217;s #Acella takes between 2:45 and 3:00 to get from DC to NY &#8211; a savings of 1-2h over a similar drive<\/p>\n<p>But that ~6.5h drive from LA to The Bay Area? For pure https:\/\/t.co\/t4FwuH27pR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-107457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107458,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107457\/revisions\/107458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107457"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=107457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}