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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Mar 4 20:26:35 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Mar 4 14:01:02 2008. which also parallels the other $2 bus, that prior was also the only bus that subway people had to pay for. It's irrelevant "who" was operating the bus. It was "the" bus that the NYCT people had to use. The Q10 wasn't operated by the MTA or the PA back then either.It is totally relevant, as I am talking about airport circulation, not TTTTP. You keep missing that point. Just as they did when the JFK Express was there. People came via the JFK express, OR the normal subway. The $2 bus fee was waived for the people that arived via the JFK Express. The other subway people had to pay $2 Nope, that was a private service directly related to and part of the MTA. It had nothing to do with the PA, AFAIK. After that service ended, for about 10 years, the PA had no choice but to operate a bus, as "someone" had to do it. They had a choice! Close the exit and don't provide service! But they didn't! They left it open recognizing its value. And why didn't they charge for the bus? Because it's not done anywhere else! Back then they understood. They thankfully replaced that inconvenient bus and replaced it with Airtrain, a much better service, which is much more likely to attract passengers through an all rail connection than a bus at the mercy of conditions and through all weather condition, and schlepping. No, I don't see it as likely to attract significantly higher numbers of passengers who wouldn't have taken the old free shuttle bus. Precedent doesn't amount to oa hill of beans, but even so, there was. It was the $2 bus that the subway people HAD to take to get from the NYCT HB station to their terminals. Doesn't matter who operated it - the PA didn't need to operate it as that service was being done by someone else. Yes precedent matters, and the precedent is that everywhere else in the country this service is free, and that the PA even operated it for free for many years. Not at all, it connects to the free circulator at Federal circle and Terminal 4. It's actually more convenient as once on the free circulator, the airtrain is not at the mercy of looping the entire airport in all kinds of traffic conditions, and signalling. Airtrain just wisks above it. No, it is not more convenient. A one seat ride to your terminal is more convenient. Why should the PA being pushing all the NYCT/MTA bus passengers onto airtrain for free when the PA seems to like to charge transit transferees? |
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