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Posted by ElectricTraction on Fri Sep 4 16:39:15 2015, in response to Re: Someone remind me, what is the point of light rail again?, posted by NIMBYkiller on Fri Sep 4 14:50:06 2015. Most of them are already using mass transit. If they're coming into NYC and staying in the city, it's an even more obvious case to take AirTrain (or a bus from LaGuardia). Newark should be better served with an extension of PATH there, and it might make sense to build some tracks for TriboroRX to serve Newark as well via the Cross-Harbor Tunnel when all that gets done.I've flown out of JFK and Logan, and I live in CT. They were actually easier than Hartford or Providence, since I was able to take mass transit to each (SLE>MN>4/6>E>AirTrain for JFK and Amtrak>Blue>shuttle bus for Logan), and for flying transcon, it's sometime about the same time as a 3-hour connection somewhere in the middle versus a direct flight from a big airport. What I love about Seattle, for example, is the light rail. Easy way to get downtown. Parking at LIRR stations may be an issue, I know that for MN and the T, a lot of stations don't have enough parking or support long-term parking. That's something that needs to be addressed for people using commuter as a feeder for Amtrak or airplane trips. God, you threw me an easy one. Depending on where in Bed-Stuy you're in, you can hope on G to J or A to J or just J, and that gets you to Jamaica. People are just lazy. NYC's mass transit is the whole reason that NYC is awesome, and why people can live in such a dense environment in NYC and whatnot, because you can actually GO places easily with little friction. Once you're in the system, you can transfer your way to any other place in the system. Fairfield county is easy. If it's good weather, go E to GCT, if it's crappy weather go E to 4/6 to GCT. And who cares how many seats it is? At some point in most trips, you have to get on a bus shuttle to get a rental car, and then in and out of the airport, and around the airport, in another airport for a connection, etc. The subway isn't any more difficult than any of that, and it shouldn't matter how many people you have, as they will each have their own backpack and roller bag if they are traveling with a full set of gear, less if they aren't, and it shouldn't be any harder than moving through any other part of the airport system. 5.5 MILLION people a day ride the subway, a few hundred thousand bags don't affect it now, and an incremental few thousand more aren't going to hurt it. Or even be noticed. Taxis serve some function on late nights when the subway is running ridiculously long headways, or to a few places that you can't easily get on busses or subways, but even those are very, very few and far between. People only need private vehicles if they live in the city and are leaving the city on a car trip. If they're going via plane or train, again, mass transit. |
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