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		adventured on Aug 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the P... Joe Biden did a three hour Amtrak trip (90 minutes each way) almost daily for 36 years for example. "Biden's apparently traveled over 2 million miles, the equivalent of four years of his life, on Amtrak." https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32363173/joe-biden-amt...

srtjstjsj on Aug 20, 2021 [–]

That's only a third of the 800 mile commute.

adventured on Aug 20, 2021 | [–]

I'm not sure what you're getting at. The distance by itself isn't particularly meaningful, the speed traveled + distance is.

Amtrak is quite slow. Jetliners are ~4-8x faster.

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