Streetsblog Los Angeles

On the East Coast, you can *almost* get from DC to NY using the following patchwork of commuter rail services:

Maryland Area Regional Commuter (MARC)
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA)
New Jersey Transit

There’s currently just a small gap in Delaware between the ends of the MARC and SEPTA systems, which MARC intends to cover in the next couple years as part of their expansion. I’m not sure what the cost of a DC-NY trip would be this way, but it couldn’t be more than $25, which is MUCH better than the $60-$120 it costs on Amtrak.

Actually, if you extend the patchwork with Virginia Railway Express (VRE) in the south and MTA (NYC) in the north, you can get all the way from Fredericksburg, VA to New Haven, CT on commuter rail alone.  That’s a good chunk of the entire East Coast.