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Posted by Charles G on Sun Feb 17 22:41:02 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Feb 17 20:30:16 2008. I've looked at the aerial map, and measured the distance between stations (3/10 of a mile).What is most noticeable in any of the online satellite photos (MapQuest, Google Maps and Yahoo! -- all were taken at different times, but all show the same pattern) is that very few cars bother to wander all the way down to the Howard Beach station. While there are cars parked in the spots closest to the station, the overwhelming majority of spots in that section of the lot are empty. For most days of the year, the lot south of the Lefferts Blvd station handles the long-term parking needs of JFK quite well. The long-term lot at JFK continues to be served by a shuttle bus system that takes people from the far reaches of the lot to the Lefferts Blvd station. As such, having two stations (one of which is in a section of the lot that is rarely utilized) seems unnecessary. IINM, the shuttle buses within the long-term lots at EWR were eliminated when the AirTrain there opened (at least that was the plan -- I took up my final roots from NJ in 1995, about when it was opening and haven't been in the long-term lots there since). As a final note, my experience with the Lefferts Blvd station is that the great majority of passengers are not headed for the long-term lot, but are instead headed for the employee lots. That doesn't have anything to do with the issue at hand -- but is an observation that is counter to what everyone else posting in this thread seems to have observed. (Of course, I often wonder how many people on SubChat are posting from actual facts or experience and how many are just spouting off theories from 1,212 miles away.) (bonus points to anyone who knows the significance of 1,212 miles) |
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