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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Amtrak's future under a Clinton administration
- Message-ID: <7933@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:59:56 GMT
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- In article <P8XcuB4w164w@cellar.org> atrw0176@cellar.org (Atrw93) writes:
- > As long as the US Customs service believes that every traveler is
- > smuggling drugs and takes its arrogant attitude toward the train service,
- > no one knows how much to allow for border travel.
- >
- > If you make it a reasonably expected time they will hold you up
- > anothe 30 min to two hours. If you allow more time in the schedule
- > and they finish fast, then you sit and wait out your departure
- > time.
- >
- A possible solution would be for customs to go through the train while it
- is travelling. This has been implemented in Europe for as long as I remember
- (and I am over 40 years, I think the last cases where you had to get out of
- the train or somesuch was in the late 50s). This was even true with the
- paranoid customs on the (then) iron curtain. But perhaps this is too rational.
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