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Re: Race to Newark Airport from World Trade Center, report |
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Posted by localacrosstheplatform on Fri Dec 19 15:04:40 2014, in response to Re: Race to Newark Airport from World Trade Center, report, posted by Charles G on Fri Dec 19 12:42:00 2014. The inconsistencies of the NJT schedule to EWR (sometimes trains less than 10 minutes apart, sometimes a 30 minute gap in service) means that in this case they would have caught the same train at both Penn and Newark Penn. Nail, meet hammer. This is probably the biggest problem with this service. What NJT provides (or, frankly, is able to provide) is simply not real airport service. It's fairly frequent commuter service that happens to (sometimes) stop at the airport. More simply put, the schedule isn't built to accommodate air travelers -- nor, by the way, is that NJT's primary job. (This isn't SUCH a problem, by the way, for JFK, since for those of us who don't want to take the very frequent subway trains from all over the city, the LIRR -- while still a commuter railroad designed for commuters -- offers more than sufficient frequencies to Jamaica.) In an ideal world, we'd have enough tunnel capacity to run dedicated airport shuttles along the model of the Heathrow Express every 15 minutes on a clock-facing schedule (for which we'd be able to charge. And we'd actually be able to serve the terminals themselves. We do not live in such a world. This extension kind of solves one of the myriad problems with EWR service at about 3-5 times what it probably should cost for what we're getting. Having said that, considering the difficulty (impossiblity?) of getting a subway extension to LGA... I'll take it. |
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