| Jeff Abrahamson on Mon, 06 Jan 2003 16:50:31 -0500 |
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On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:32:12PM -0500, Fred K Ollinger wrote: > > I'm all signed up; got my badge in the mail and everything. Did anybody else > > remember to sign up? I figure we could do what we've done the last couple > > years - SEPTA to Trenton; Trenton to NYC. Slightly longer than Amtrack; much > > less cost. The day runs from 10AM to 5PM, so I'm figuring on an early set of > > trains, to get to NYC around 10:30-11. > > This is no joke. There is a train from Philly chinatown to NYC's. It's a > little bit faster than the septa/nj transit train and it costs $10 > roundtrip. I rode it once, and it was very clean. The old Jackie Chan > movie was quite funny. They doubled their prices on 13 December, so it's now $20 RT, $12 one way. Still a good deal, still about 2 hours, faster than septa/njt, cheaper than both septa/njt and greyhound. There are two companies, which don't collude but which nonetheless raise their prices in lock step: Dragon (1041 Race, but look for a bus before you look for the office) and 2000 New Century Transit (10th Street just north of the Greyhound station). They run almost the same schedules, roughly every two hours. Sometimes the movies are in English. I'm pretty sure there's a 7 a.m. bus, which gets you to East Broadway (under the Manhattan Bridge) around 9:30 (rush hour). It's a good half hour up town to Javitts from there. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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