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by saalweachter 595 days ago
It's that the East Coast is particularly dense compared to the rest of the country, and has a lot of walkable cities.

So you can take a train to New York, or DC, or a number of lesser cities, and not need a car when you arrive.
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chgs 595 days ago
Well I got an Uber from my office to Union station, as the metro in DC isn’t great. Obviously no need for an Uber in New York as I could get the subway.

Had I flown to Miami I’d still need a taxi to my hotel, just like I did from the train station. I don’t get that argument.

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easton 595 days ago
The DC metro isn’t great? Blasphemy! You can get most of the interesting places (including Union Station and both airports) without a car.

(unless you’re in one of the dead zones, I suppose. No metro in Georgetown.)

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chgs 594 days ago
Yeah it takes as long to walk to a metro station from my office as it does to sit in the Uber to get to Union.
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saalweachter 595 days ago
~Every airport in America has rental cars; basically no train station does.
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Symbiote 595 days ago
Why not? Maybe a vicious cycle of insufficient demand.

There are three rental car locations close to Copenhagen Central Station. (Not within it, but within the distance you'd walk around an airport terminal.)

Miami station has car rental, I haven't checked any others.

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saalweachter 595 days ago
Damned if I know; best guess would be a consequence of (a) in decently busy cities train stations tend to be in dense areas where it's not economical to stick a car rental, where airports tend to have some acreage around them where you can stick a rental lot and (b) small towns only get a few trains a day and fewer non-residents detraining, so it's neither worth keeping a rental office open just for the train station or even considering its location, since the fraction of rentals from the train station is small compared to eg people getting a rental while their car is in the shop.
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chgs 594 days ago
Well why would I need a car downtown - all that traffic, parking, and cost.

If I’m going further afield then why would I need to get off the train downtown.

When I hire a car at home or the office it gets delivered to my drive.

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jazzyjackson 595 days ago
Miami has a particularly poor placement for its Amtrak station
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