The plane from La Guardia to Boston costs about $250 and the trip takes roughly 3.5 hours with getting to the airport, waiting at the airport, flight, and landing and getting your bags.
The Acela train is almost the same price and NYC-Boston will eat up 4 hours.
Fung Wah bus out of Chinatown is $15. Trip time 4 hours and they sell a hot dog for a dollar next to the ticket stand. Friends question the safety on the buses. All my voyages have been bereft of any danger. Not so this morning. A loaded dump truck slammed into a parked Fung Wah bus, which knocked over a lamppost, killing a passing pedestrian. 4 other people were taken to the hospital, two of them passengers.
The driver of the dump truck has yet to explain the circumstances of the crash, but this is the 6th mishap for the Fung Wah bus. One bus fell on its side and another burst into flames. There was also a crash into the Allston tollbooth during a snow storm and two other accidents.
Am I scared to travel on it now?
I’m more frightened by the price of a train.
By the way the word fung wah means ‘magnificent wind’ in Cantonese