Originally Posted by
ByeByeDelta
"Amtrak will always incorporate random and unpredictable boarding measures throughout the station and no individual will be guaranteed the same boarding experience in order to retain a certain element of randomness to prevent passengers from gaming the boarding system."
I might buy that if it were not the case that every time in the last 16 years of boarding trains at NYP--except for one lonely exception when there was an Amtrak policeman at the top of the steps--I have gamed the boarding system. By my back-of-the-envelope calculation, that's about 400 successes and 1 failure. Not real random, and pretty predictable!