Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/23/millennials-kill-amtraks-din.html
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How the heck is anyone supposed to set up an intriguing murder mystery if there’s no formal dining area to bring the cast of characters together?
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It’s that demographic, he said, that Amtrak wants to attract with more contemporary car designs and food options.
Reliable wifi and high ceilings so that the Millenials can use their phones to order drone-delivered Hot Pockets and Soylent and (or course) avocado toast straight to their fully enclosed privacy pods.
Before all that, though, Amtrak first might want to get a handle on the challenging concept of “reserved seats”.
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I’m sure the cheapo disposable plastic plates and utensils had nothing to do with it.
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Just for clarification, who are “the millenials” in this story?
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This is the sequel to “Baby Boomers kill affordable, enjoyable, and widespread North American train travel.”
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You know what else the millennials are killing? Phrases like “going out of fashion”.
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Airplane food on a train is still crap.
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“Young people we can blame for our own screw-ups”. Same as with any other big corporation going through hard times because it got lazy and complacent.
Imagine if they hadn’t abandoned the ideals of their youth and given into Reaganism. Instead of this underfunded joke we might have a decent passenger rail system similar to those in Japan or continental Europe.
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'zactly. People younger then you but old enough that you can seemly blame them for stuff.
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Make Airplane Food Edible Again
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Real Solution: Hitch up a few awesome food trucks.
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The cabin is filling with smoke. 
But it smells delicious. 
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I’d really like to see thier data on this. It sounds more like they didn’t want the expense of a car that wasn’t carrying passengers.
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I’m pretty sure the shitty train system in the US is killing itself, but sure. Millennials.
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My experience with the dining car is that some jackass opens up their laptop/briefcase and takes over 4 fucking seats.
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So “Millennials”, who are often portrayed as having zero inhibitions about sharing every aspect of themselves on social media, “want more privacy” and “don’t want to feel uncomfortable sitting next to people they don’t know” IRL ?! Strange days indeed.
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I’m already PO’d that Amtrak pulled their Parlour Cars from the Coast Starlight, although I did get to ride on the cars’ very last trip, which was so full of railroad geeks that they had both of their Pacific Parlour cars in that trip (usually one was used, while the other was getting serviced). Standing room only in the Parlour Car wine-tastings.
But blaming “millennials” is lame.
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“Millenials” was mistranslated from the original Greek for “blame sponge”. It’s an abstract group that acquires whatever characteristics are required to deflect responsibility for a situation.
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