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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the Saturday evening AmTrak from Williamsburg (1 block from campus) to Alexandria (AKA, the Hogworts Express), the Conductor announced a welcome home the 450 W& M students they were dropping off. Kids also came home Friday evening, Sat am, and there were two trains Sunday. And, of course, some kids drove and some were picked up.

Contrast this with 35 kids a year from MoCo. [/quote]

What makes you think that there weren't MoCo kids getting off in Alexandria too?  I live in MoCo and it's pretty much 50-50 to me on whether I'd prefer to do a train pick up at Union Station vs Alexandria....[/quote]

One Tribe!

I think that part was only meant to show the difference and thus competitiveness for OOS kids.  So, kudos to your kid :) I have not skin in this game, being from SE VA and I almost wishing I could be part of this Hogwarts tradition of seeing all those WM kids pouring out of the train :D [/quote]

Yeah. I grumble about the crowd. But f you haven’t seen your kid in a couple months, it’s pretty great to see hundreds of kids pouring out of the train talking and laughing with each other and hugging their parents.  It’s the moment when it feels like Christmas or Thanksgiving has arrived.  We usually get my other kid from the airport.  His school is also great and he loves it. [b]But Dulles definitely does not inspire the same happiness and excitement.[/b] [/quote]

DP.  Oh, I disagree!  I love meeting people - and especially my college kids - at Dulles.  So exciting, every single time.  One of my kids goes to VT and they have several buses that come up from Blacksburg to Dulles.  Same vibe - kids pouring out, everyone hugging, parents eagerly waiting.  It's so great when the college kids come home, regardless.[/quote]

See, that sounds nice. Much less nice— your kid has flown alone from 5 states away, and you are sitting in stop and go traffic for 20 minutes to get from the entrance to the pickup outside baggage claim where the first two lanes of cars have completely stopped and while they wait there for someone, rather than the cell phone lot.  Ugh.  [/quote]

PP here - isn’t that the worst?  I so wish the police would crack down on those who refuse to wait at the cell phone lot.  They make it awful for everyone.[/quote]

+1. In departures, they stand there and glare at you for the 90 seconds it takes to get your kids bag out and give them a goodbye hug.  The only time I went over two minutes because there was a brief “by the way, remember to take A COVID test before your grandparents visit next week” “Im out, where do I get one” “ask student health or go to CVS” exchange, they came over and insisted I move. But I’ve seen folks turn of their cars and sit scrolling for their phones for 10-15 for the entire 10-15 minutes it takes DH to get from the cell phone lot, and then I have to duck through three lanes of traffic to put my bag in the truck while drivers honk.

I had always thought the issue at arrivals was security. In which case, it’s just as easy to blow up the airport from departures. [/quote]

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