Jacob Passy
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580 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2017
last heard Jan 2025
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · All Aboard! More Travelers Choose Trains Over Cars and Planes · 2 Aug 2024
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Train travel in the US is not high speed by and large, and the routes are going to take longer than a similar flight would take.
You might deal with delays because of
Other rail operators on the same railroad because of accidents, things like that.
A cross-country train trip from the West Coast to the East Coast takes days still, as opposed to flying, which takes hours.
They do.
There's this idea out there that especially when folks come back from Europe or Asia, where rail travel is much more prominent, they want it here.
And then the recent legislation, the infrastructure bill that President Biden signed into law, had a lot of funding attached to it.
for rail travel.
And folks I spoke with said that dramatically increased awareness of rail travel across the country.
It's really a matter of once people become aware of rail as an option, they want to take advantage of it.
And so it's a matter of getting more frequency, more train options across this country, and then making people aware of it.
The biggest mistake that people could make is assuming that the price is the same across different websites.
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You should be doing research.
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I know it's annoying.
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But generally speaking, these are being set by outside companies, and those companies are usually negotiating the prices with the airlines and the hotels.
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They're often finding that the prices are higher than what they could find elsewhere.
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So the prices on websites like Chase's travel website or Capital One's travel website are going to be higher than what you might find on hotel and airline websites or through third-party
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like Expedia.
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And what did the credit card companies say about this?
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The credit card companies stress that they put together really lucrative reward programs.
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