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Posted by Charles G on Mon Feb 25 19:39:14 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by Terrapin Station on Mon Feb 25 18:09:14 2008. My guess is because PANYNJ wanted to collect additional revenue.OK. My guesses are that the PA wouldn't have build the station adjacent to the subway if they couldn't collect additional revenue and that HB residents wouldn't want a free entry to the airport in their neighborhood. It makes no sense, is wrong, and is bad transportation policy. "No sense" and "Wrong" are opinion/judgments. They are easier (but by no means absolute) to arrive at if one accepts your contention that the only reason for the charge is extra revenue. Even "bad transportation policy" is predicated on your assumption of greed. If one accepts the other arguments put forth -- that the AirTrain would not have been built to connect with HB station unless an additional charge could be collected -- it would seem to be a case of very good transportation policy. As respects your comments about the HB and Lefferts stations being basically the same, I think this exceptionally weak. The stations are 3/10 of a mile apart by rail, but easily 1/2 mile apart by land. Without someone going back and documenting the "why" part of the question, all anyone here is doing at this point is force-feeding the same opinions down the masochists who are actually reading this thread. So the real questin becomes -- Will anyone (present company included) be willing to actually say, "I've got my opinion and you've got yours. Until we get some facts, nothing is going to change"? |
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