re: The TSA Apocalypse continues

Anybody have any later reports on TSA lines at MSY? I have a 9 PM flight and my wife is agitating to go now.

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London Underground for a couple of days, frick trains although the ride between Liverpool and Manchester was lovely.

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The underground is cramped and hot as shite. MAN-LIV was a pleasure in comparison; even at standing room only, it was still only ~30 miles.

Lost on these EU train lovers is that they envision everything as a high speed, long distance, efficient, train. They're not.

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As the 12:06 p.m. Intercity Express train to Berlin leaves the Swiss city of Bern and crosses the border into Germany, passengers reluctantly bid farewell to punctuality — a guarantee in the Alpine republic where trains run like clockwork.

Fifty-seven-year-old Elisabeth Eisel regularly takes this seven-hour train journey. "Trains in Switzerland are always on time, unless they're arriving from Germany," she says. "Harsh but true, sadly. It didn't used to be the case."

Chronic underinvestment in Germany has derailed yet another myth about Teutonic efficiency. The German railway Deutsche Bahn's long-distance "high-speed" trains are now among the least punctual in Europe. In October, the national rail operator broke its own poor record with roughly only half of all long-distance trains arriving without delay.

Waning reliability is but one of many problems for state-owned Deutsche Bahn, which is operating at a loss and regularly subjects its passengers to poor or no Wi-Fi access, seat reservation mix-ups, missing train cars and "technical problems" — a catch-all reason commonly cited by conductors over the train intercom.

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Missing train cars is a big FD, because you can pay for reserved seating on most lines (not cheap) and if your seat/car is just ... not there... it causes problems, to be kind.

I just read your response to my wife. We’re leaving at 6 PM.

In her defense, it’s an international flight, but still…

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They could do a 1 page bill and fund it and end this

But congress is a bunch of theatre kids who are a bunch of dickwads

They’d rather hold Americans hostage over the coals to be miserable than to vote for required voter ID to stop election shenanigans

Just unreal honestly . They fight for illegals more than American citizens

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Excellent post.

Both sides of the government always fighting with each other, and their own citizens are the ones who suffer. Tale as old as time.