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by NeedMoreTea 2483 days ago
s/train/{car|plane|coach|tram|bus|bicycle}/

No transport is free of movement or vibration, cars most especially. Far more get car and air sick than train sick. So unless you're advocating never travelling at all, I'm not sure what point you're making.

From my experience of all, train is probably the most comfortable of the lot, with the best seating, most desk space - you get a proper table and even a mains point. You don't get forced to breathe dry low oxygen air, and avoid the nasty taste of road fumes.

Biggest negative is the relative cost of train compared to all the other forms of transport, which speaks more of relative subsidy than inherent costs.
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Erlich_Bachman 2483 days ago
The point I am making, which is clear if you read previous comments I was answering to, is that travelling for a whole day in a train is not in any way an equivalent, productivity-wise, to travelling 3 hours by plane and then working the rest of the day in an office or a home.

There might be other reasons to take trains over airplanes, but "so I can comfortably work on it" is a very questionable one.

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maskros 2483 days ago
3 hours by plane also includes 2 hours traveling to and from the airport, an hour of security queueing, and another hour of navigating the airport, boarding, and picking up your luggage. All those extra stressful hours are not available for working. Now you've spent the better part of a day traveling, just how much are you going to get done "the rest of the day"?
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sokoloff 2483 days ago
Get TSA Precheck, carry your luggage on (easy for work trips IME), learn the typical transit time and latencies for security. I can leave my house at 4:30-4:45 for a 6 AM flight (boarding closes at 5:45), reliably make it, have breakfast on the flight, and walk off the plane directly to ground transport and be in fine shape to work a full day somewhere.

You can add hours of buffer time if you want (if you're flying to do an organ transplant, maybe that's a good idea); most people can take a 0.5% chance of missing their flight. (I've literally never missed one, though I've been a few minutes away from doing so a couple times, usually because of my own error, once because of unexpectedly long security lines, even for TSA Pre.)

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NeedMoreTea 2483 days ago
Ideally there'd be a sleeper service so I could maybe do a little work in the evening, travel overnight, have a relaxed breakfast arriving ready for a full day. To me that's miles ahead of getting up 5 hours early with all the mucking about of getting there, checkin, baggage and what not involved in air travel, and almost as ridiculous on arrival.

Personally I've never had issue working on trains, and the many friends who use trains regularly seem to do work well enough too.

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