It’s 250 miles to drive from Atlanta to Savannah GA.
By car, In a
Toyota Prius, @ 50mpg, it would take 5 gallons of gasoline to go one way, or 10
gallons round trip. At $3.50 per gallon,
his would cost $35 roundtrip. Travel time is about 5 hours. You are safe and
can stop any time you want. This is the best way to go.
By bus, in a
Greyhound bus the fare is $59 from Atlanta to Savannah, about $120 round trip
and takes 5 hours. If you don’t mind he
hassle with how to get around without your car once you’ve arrived, this is the
second best way to go.
By air, it’s 215
miles to fly from Atlanta to Savannah GA.
You will experience the latest indignities from the TSA. Air fare is $251 to $302 round trip with one
stop at Charlotte NC, total time each way is 3 hrs 20 min. This is the third
best way to go.
By Amtrack, it’s
$161.50, one way from Atlanta to
Savannah GA. The actual cost is subsidized 100%. The federal government $1 billion a year from
your gasoline tax dollars. A round trip
would cost you $323. Trip time is 6 hours and 41 minutes, This is the fourth best way to go.
High speed rail
costs over $100 million per mile to construct; for 250 miles, that’s $25 billion
dollars plus maintenance and operations.
For just the $25 billion, we could provide round-trip air fare at $300
for 83 million passengers. If 100
passengers a day make this trip, the 36,500 trips a year would cost about $11
million a year. They would have free airline
tickets for the next 2,273 years. This is just nuts.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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