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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Mar 2 21:27:26 2008, in response to Re: Air Train question, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Mar 2 20:36:16 2008. Actually I am speaking for the people.Who are these people? People would have to be certified nuts to actually pay that $5 rip off if they know about it ahead of time and understand they are getting ripped of BIG TIME. Uh no. Airtrain provides a very convenient service, and they are NOT getting ripped off at all paying $5 for it's convenience. It blows the hell out of the bus it replaced. No, sorry, it does not just happen to pass through one of the parking lots. It is 100% fully contained in the long term lot, except for the portion above the road to Fed Circle. So what? The service it provides from Howard beach is a great asset, and blows away what was there before. As I said, they could charge for the parking lot people too, but that would cause an even worse semantics problem between that lot and the other lots than we have now with Howard Beach. And that is all it is at HB, a semantics problem. who cares. No, I highly doubt it went down in any way like you are saying. Maybe, maybe not, but ever since Charles brought that up, it made a lot of sense. That whole branch may not have been built had it not been because of the revenue recieved from it to help operate it, and it's VERY conveneint and a great asset for those coming from Howard Beach that that which it replaced. the parking lot could have been just as easily served with buses to Federal circle, but since the connection to Howard Beach (a fee based leg) was going to be there anyway, it made sense to have a parking lot station on it. So NO, the main reason for that branch is not the parking lot, the same could have been done with buses to Federal circle, although less conveneinetly. And since a train to that lot was a good addition, it would have been silly not to connect to HB too, but if it didn't go all the way to Howard Beach, where they could collect a fare, it may not have been worth it to build the whole branch. So either way, however it came down, the extention to Howard beach was probably built as they knew it would get a fare. |
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