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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Feb 29 03:25:02 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Feb 27 22:07:53 2008. The claim that the Airtrain is a free on-property circulator. The trouble with this is that NYCT riders come from off-property, just like at Jamaica, in fact. Your debating partner here went for the (baited) claim that any distance Airtrain went off-property justifies an access fee. He relied on the distinction, to his mind anyway, that the Airtrain vehicle doesn't go off PA property. But so what? The Airtrain system necessarily does lead one off property. Ergo, for people headed to/from A trains at Howard Beach, they are coming from off-property.All people at Jamaica, regardless of their initial origin pay the same fare (excluding the irrelevant joyriders who ride to Jamaica and back). This is NOT true for people for all people at Howard Beach. Why is it that people who happened to find their way into the airport there pay nothing while the people who found themselves only a few feet outside the airport property have to pay an access fee? The AirTrain at Howard Beach isn't providing anyone access from outside the airport, the people there have found their own way into the airport. If the Port Authority felt that the cost of building the AirTrain to Howard Beach was such that they have to charge a fare for service there, why do they only charge it to a subset of the passengers there? |
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