Originally Posted by
launcher
my problem with the bus - and all of the carriers are guilty of this - is that they think PHL to NYP is a 2 hour trip, just because mapquest says so. About half the times it is longer. The Friday afternoon, or other peak schedules should automatically allow 2.5 or 3 hours to get through that tunnel, at least. Not that connections are guaranteed or anything, but you should expect to allow much extra time for these trips, because the schedules are fantasy world.
I find much the same is true for air connections via EWR, ORD, etc. And the Hound timetable is padded to some extent. Our trip was billed as 2:00 but took 1:40, and the published runtimes are longer during weekday rush hours.