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Posted by Terrapin Station on Fri Feb 15 12:39:40 2008, in response to Re: Crossing Imaginary Lines, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Feb 15 11:50:47 2008. Don't tell me that there is some sort of mass of people that are getting charged to walk from their Howard Beach homes (dragging their luggage) to the Howard Beach AirTrain. What would that be, one person a year at best?They can't do that. Peds get charged the PEDESTRAIN TOLL!!!! Instead they can walk to the Lefferts Blvd station and ride the free circulator for free. But it doesn't matter how many do it. It's the fact that the option is available and doable. The fare is for people transferring between Howard Beach NYCT station to AirTrain, just as there is from the Suphin Blvd NYCT station at Jamaica (as well as LIRR) to AirTrain. Incorrect. The Jamaica branch is an off-property rapid transit line that brings you from a "downtown" (for lack of a better word) that is a great distance away from airport property, right to the terminals. The charge to ride that branch is for the service of bringing you to and/or onto airport property. This is done at many airports, such as in San Fran (iirc), Philly, and at O'Hare. However the HB branch is only an on the property free airport circulator. It does not bring you to the property. It does not bring you onto the property. It only carries you through the property. There are no airport circulators in this country that I know of that charge you for this service, and the HB branch is no different. At any of the stations along the HB branch, you can exit airtrain onto airport property and not pay a fare. That's great! Now say you then want to leave the airport property. Well at the Lefferts Blvd station of AirTrain, you can just walk or drive or get picked up. Only the "drive" option requires you to pay, and that's the parking fee. But at the HB station, you only have two options, walk or drive. If you drive, you pay the parking fee. If you walk, you pay the pedestrian toll to walk through a previously free pedestrian connection to the (A) train station. It is that pedestrian toll that I, and others, disagree with. eople dropping people off on Airport property can leave them at the circulator. Right! They don't pay anything! Why is that?!?! |
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