Archive for the 'Amtrak' Category

Amtrak Scheduling 2008.

It's somehow reassuring that after a year it looks like Amtrak's made even less progress on their scheduling algorithms than I have in blogging (where last year's post about this is still on the front page):

Bad Amtrak Schedule 2008

That's right: the default selection it's now offering is a worse schedule that costs more than the train I actually want (714).

I'll make you a deal, Amtrak: if you fix this in 2009, I won't blog at all. ;-p

Amtrak scheduling.

Really, Amtrak? How did you decide to pick the trip that requires a transfer, takes significantly longer, ultimately transfers to the train I wanted anyway, and is the same price as the default option? And don't even get me started on your session handling.

Bad Amtrak scheduling