Intercity Bus travel: vastly cheaper, safer and more environmentally friendly than Amtrak.

Even in the Northeast Corridor.  The Federals turn everything they touch to s**t.  Everything.

Randal O’Toole covers some issues:

Intercity buses carry at least 50 percent more passenger miles than Amtrak in Amtrak’s showcase Northeast Corridor. They do so with almost no subsidies and at fares that are about a third of Amtrak’s regular train fares and little more than 10 percent of Amtrak’s high-speed Acela fares. Intercity buses are safe and environmentally friendly, suffering almost 80 percent fewer fatalities per billion passenger miles than Amtrak and using 60 percent less energy per passenger mile than Amtrak.

Oh, and the use private capital and pay taxes too.  Capitalist bastards.

Another key point by Tyler Cowen:

Today, in fact, I am blogging from a bus. I appreciate the on-board wireless and the fact that on entering the bus I was neither searched, groped nor scanned.