Recent content by jcs

It appears the biggest Scammer of all are our government and politicians, which always proposing and passing new taxes for promises they can never deliver and then using the money for something else. As there is no way they will refund the taxes people paid over the years even if the project is...

I guess its probably not a fatality, or otherwise trains would be delayed for at least 4 hours for the coroner to arrive and for the tracks to be cleaned up. Apparently it is a mechanical issue with one of the trains. Information given by twitter or by station agents can often be inaccurate.

It appears the Lossan rail corridor today is suffering the fall out of an incident that is causing nearly hour long delays. I heard it was a fatality. Maybe it a suicide on the tracks? I remember the weekend before Thanksgiving when a southbound train struck someone somewhere south of LA union...

I understand it would be difficult to deal with such persons loitering in the station , though if turnstiles are put in to ticketed areas it may help a little. We would need less of the useless security monitors who often gives legit travelers an attitude for trying to relax on a chair. Of...

It's against the rules of conduct at the station, and he's habitual(not once or twice but recognized by ticket agents), so they could remove him. It is also theft by deception under CPC 532(a). Only if Amtrak police is willing to do a sting when he goes to the window since he is a regular. From...

Thanks for all your replies, so who to contact to put a stop to such potential scammers that had been identified by so many people?

Interesting they only require tickets to purchase tickets but not to refund them. While this is done in the name of security, it appears only security measure this provides is to help prevent ticket scalping which a middleman buys a large amount of tickets often at low bucket price, thus...

Seeing the tread Crying Amtrak girl made back in 2010. I recently encountered a situation in LA union station where a There is a guy, asian of Cambodian/Chinese origin possibly in his 40s who states he needs in need of help getting home following immigration detention, wants people to either...

Probably sad is not the right way to describe it. Though you would expect with the price you pay for the otherwise better experience of riding the Surfliner trains you would expect better deals on transfers to local public transit agencies. Amtrak should include an unlimited day transfer program...

Can anyone shed some light on how the transit transfer free program work in practice these days? Interesting It appears conductors/ticket attendants no longer issue transfer slips as they done in the past and many personnel these days dont even know the details of the free transit program when...

In my experience some amtrak stations have parking passes available for those with Amtrak tickets. I am curious whether this is the case in LA union station which is located in downtown LA where parking is at a premium and is usually expensive as I am planning to depart from there sometime in...

The Los Angeles Union station is a pretty busy station as it serves the second largest city in the country and has 15 passenger railroad tracks mostly used by Amtrak and Metrolink trains but also LA metro Gold as well as Metro Red and purple line subway terminus station and 8 metro bus lines at...