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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Mon Mar 10 10:00:03 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Mar 9 11:56:18 2008. What RIPTAHope fails to see with his percentage chart and graph for Howard Beach is that with Jamaica taking 226,769 passengers into the airport, that is a MAJOR percentage that didn't exist before, so of COURSE Howard Beach's percentage will be lower than it once was before Jamaica was there. You can't look at the percentages without considering the fact that Jamaica added a major slice of pie to the mix. People that say "Jamaica is irrelevant" are completely wrong, it MAJORLY skews the percentages, and passenger counts. And even through all that, Howard Beach STILL holds as many passengers as it once did, and PARKING went WAY down.Jamaica is irrelevant, because we're only looking at the effect of the $5 fare on ridership at Howard Beach. We don't have sufficient O-D data to determine if riders switched to Jamaica, buses, taxis, or LaGuardia. Moreover, we don't know how many riders who switched to Jamaica wouldn't have if Howard Beach were free. Why pay $7 for the old crappy way when the new, premium service is the same $7? (It's all marketing, of course; I think it was the Wall Street Journal that discovered the A to Howard Beach is still faster). If the Howard Beach connection remained free, the ultra-expensive Jamaica branch could have been an embarrassment. The core problem remains: charging transit users to access the airport and not charging non-transit users is poor transportation policy. |
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