What's missing is these posts is that the function of a bar car is not as an alcohol delivery device, it's to have a place to make and see friends. On a long CR route, people take the same train month after month, year after year. Having a beer at your seat, by yourself is sad. Doing so in the bar car, often with the same people, perhaps working in the same industry as you is not, it's healthy. Removing the bar cars is a way of telling the commuters "you are drones, you exist only to shuffle between breeding station and cubicle".
OK, I'm stretching it a bit, but a 1.5 hour commute door to door each way doesn't leave much of your own life outside of the Survivor show of corporate life.
OK, I'm stretching it a bit, but a 1.5 hour commute door to door each way doesn't leave much of your own life outside of the Survivor show of corporate life.