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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Mar 4 06:54:12 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Mar 3 14:53:52 2008. Parking lot people are using the service (just like all the other parking lots) after paying for parking. It's a different price structure.No, parking lot people are not being charged for airtrain. 1. the parking charge is per car, not per person. You could pay for one car and have 8 people ride airtrain for free. 2. the parking charge is per 8 hours, not per airtrain ride. 3. you can ride airtrain 2 times or 100 times and pay the same parking rate. 4. The price for parking the first day is the same as each additional day. There is no extra charge built in for aitrain. They can't charge the parking lot people for that if they don't charge all the other parking lot people for it. By that line of thinking, they can't charge A train riders if they aren't charging everyone! People were charged a $2 if they didn't ride the PREMIUM MTA JFK Express to get to Howard Beach. When the MTA dropped the JFK Express, their shuttle was also dropped. So? The PA decided to pick up the slack and bus the MTA's customers to the terminals. How could they charge for that when they weren't providing any kind of premium service? Like I asked, WHAT WAS SO PREMIUM ABOUT THE BUS THAT COST $2????? And how was the free bus so much worse? Today, there is a premium service (a very convenient and seamless one, much more so than the buses it replaced) there that is airtrain. Cheaper options still exist, and everyone has the right to chose what fits their particular situation. It's not a premium service. It's the mass transit way of getting there. Mass transit is looked down upon. No one considers taking the (A) all the way to Howard Beach "premium". The PA should be making it more attractive, since it has excess capacity. They should not be stealing $5 from people just so get into the parking lot, where there is already a free airtrain. And the A freakn lets you off right on the border of the airport! How great is that?!!?!! Except that then they still make you pay $5, the same as people coming from Jamaica WHICH IS NO WHERE NEAR THE AIRPORT! And it isn't. They do charge a fee for AirTrain however. Fare control access makes it necessary to put up a fence. People can walk into the airport (yeah the thousands that must walk to the airport) can access the airport from Lefferts if they so chose. Or they can take a bus. Most had that choice before arriving at Howard Beach station. No, it is ped toll. The HB branch is free. It is on the property. Addressed in one of these recent posts. No you didn't. I want to know what the parallel free service is, just like how the (A) paralleled TTTTP. |
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