Are more Mainers opting to take trains over planes this holiday season?

Are more Mainers opting to take trains over planes this holiday season?

Amtrak and FlixBus says they have noticed an increase in ridership since the government shutdown began.

Never Forget Who Screwed Up All the Planes

Photo by Grant Baldwin/Getty ImagesThe United States relies on air travel to a greater extent than any other nation on earth. That’s a bit of a mushy statement, but it rings true to me: no other country has our population and our size and our near-total disregard for alternate forms of long-distance transportation. Even Russia has trains. India has trains. Don’t get me started on China. And in many parts of those countries, people’s lives do not…