My article two weeks ago about cruise ports to which Pittsburgh area travelers can drive rather than fly generated a flurry of reader comments and suggestions.

Robert Hoffman of Point Breeze noted that while listing Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City, I had omitted the Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne, N.J., which is the mid-Atlantic's second-most-active cruise departure point.

Quite right. This facility across the Hudson River from Manhattan has served more than 320,000 cruise passengers since 2004. Two cruise vessels, Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas and Celebrity Cruise's Constellation, sail five- to 12-night itineraries from Cape Liberty to Bermuda, the Caribbean, as well as voyages along the New England coastline up to Maritime Canada. For information, departure dates and prices, visit www.capeliberty.com or the cruise lines.

With easy access both via highway and Newark Airport, Cape Liberty also has another cruise connection opportunity several other readers wrote to suggest: taking a train.

Fair enough.

Amtrak offers only a single train each morning at 7:20 to Philadelphia, but that would let cruise passengers ride the rails to catch an evening embarkation in the City of Brotherly Love or, by making a train connection in New York, Bayonne or Baltimore, catching a cab from the train station to the pier for the final leg of the journey. It also would be possible to take a train to Norfolk, via Washington, D.C., but that journey could not be accomplished in a single day.

While probably requiring more time than driving, the train does offer a viable cruise connection option to these ports.

For that matter, so would taking a Greyhound bus.

Finally, several other readers had quibbles with observations I made about the availability of airline options to Florida cruise ports. I'd mentioned that AirTran and USA 3000 offer nonstop flights to Fort Lauderdale, but both have dropped that service, although AirTran plans to resume two daily non-stops starting in November. And another noted that direct flights to Orlando allow passengers to catch a cruise from Port Canaveral, a 45-minute drive along the Beeline Expressway, with connections via taxi (about $50 each way) or van shuttle ($60 round trip).