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Posted by trainsarefun on Mon Feb 25 19:54:23 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by Terrapin Station on Mon Feb 25 19:19:51 2008. No, because there is no need for it to go over the line. The (A) station is on the border.But let's say that the PA wants to do this. Then the 'Airtrain vehicle' does in fact cross the 'imaginary line'. So why should they charge you or not? Before AirTrain was build, the (A) station had an exit directly into the parking lot. There was no charge from the PANYNJ to use this exit right into the parking lot. And why should there be? Because time working as it does, moving only forward at a pretty constant rate, why would they charge an Airtrain access fee BEFORE there was Airtrain? Howard Beach is just about off airport property, as you've noted yourself. They charge the access fee because otherwise they lose money compared to the current state of affairs and wouldn't have built the Howard Beach station in the first place, or because the neighborhood doesn't like this free arrangement at Howard Beach bringing people who can't afford access fees, or to make the fare equal for people boarding from NYCT or LIRR trains at Jamaica the same as people boarding from NYCT trains at Howard Beach, or maybe some combination of these. I think you have to try to engage with reasons for the fee at Howard Beach. Then if your goal is to undermine that, you can argue why the reasons that could be given are bad ones. But you can't put the cart before the horse. |
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