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WSJ Your Money Briefing

All Aboard! More Travelers Choose Trains Over Cars and Planes

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As the nation’s airports and highways become more congested, more Americans are choosing to travel by rail. Wall Street Journal reporter Jacob Passy joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss the pros and cons—as well as the cost—of train travel. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your money briefing for Friday, August 2nd.

0:26.5

I'm J. R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal. Planning a vacation inevitably involves bracing for frustrating travel experiences, like dealing

0:37.8

with crowds, or weather delays, or bumper to bumper traffic, not to mention the high cost of gas.

0:44.0

So more Americans are looking past cars and planes

0:47.6

and opting to take a train instead.

0:50.0

People are not as jam-packed as they are on planes.

0:53.0

There are cafe cars.

0:54.6

You can get up and walk around.

0:56.3

You can appreciate the views in a different way

0:59.0

than you can in the air.

1:01.4

We'll talk to Wall Street Journal reporter Jacob Passy about

1:04.2

crisscrossing the nation on the rails, the good and the bad. That's after the

1:09.1

break. TnB Tech Minute gives you the day's top tech headlines featuring newsmakers that shape

1:20.4

the tech world and beyond like open AI CEO Sam Altman. The two things that I think

1:26.1

will matter most over the next decade are abundant and inexpensive. Intelligence and

1:32.4

abundant and cheap energy.

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