<story><title>My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford</title><url>https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/07/23/my-300-mile-lyft-ride-from-chicago-to-bradford</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khrbrt</author><text>This is why we need a train system with funding parity to the highway and airport systems. There should be trains leaving constantly, at most every 10 minutes, from Chicago to the east, and frequent, semihourly, trains between neighboring cities along the way.&lt;p&gt;Even if the author could rent a car, having to drive 300 miles is astounding waste of time and mental energy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BrandonM</author><text>There are 5 different Greyhound buses next Monday from Chicago to Dayton (called &amp;quot;Dayton Trotwood&amp;quot;), ranging from $36 to $90, all taking about 7 hours. There are some passenger trains in the US—I&amp;#x27;ve actually gone overnight from Rochester, NY, to Milwaukee, WI, via train when a flight was canceled—but bus travel is just how you get to medium-sized US cities, for better or for worse. 188 US cities are larger than Dayton, and it&amp;#x27;s only the 6th largest city in Ohio.&lt;p&gt;Of course, it&amp;#x27;s not as nice as having regular, smooth, fast trains. But the situation is not as dire as people make it out to be.</text></comment>
<story><title>My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford</title><url>https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/07/23/my-300-mile-lyft-ride-from-chicago-to-bradford</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khrbrt</author><text>This is why we need a train system with funding parity to the highway and airport systems. There should be trains leaving constantly, at most every 10 minutes, from Chicago to the east, and frequent, semihourly, trains between neighboring cities along the way.&lt;p&gt;Even if the author could rent a car, having to drive 300 miles is astounding waste of time and mental energy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>f5thesystem</author><text>Ohio had plans to connect Toledo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus, however the Governor at the time turned down the federal money.</text></comment>