From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 11:17:40 AM UTC-5, John Levine wrote:   
   > According to Peter T. Daniels :   
   > >> Anyone got NYC transit topics?    
   > >>    
   > >> Now that the governor has cancelled Cuomo's silly LGA Airtrain To    
   > >> Nowhere, is there any hope for better connections to LGA? How about    
   > >> getting past the NIMBYs and extending the N/W to the airport? Or a    
   > >> reasonable airtrain along the BQE to Jackson Heights?    
   > >Airtrain is evil. And they just raised the fare to something like $8.   
   >   
   > The one at EWR isn't too bad. Whatever fare it charges is hidden in    
   > the tickets for the NJT and Amtrak trains it connects to.    
      
   From Jersey City I would have to take (a bus and) three trains (PATH    
   to Newark, NJT to Airport, and Airtrain, No thanks! Alternatively,    
   (local bus down to Hoboken Terminal,) NJT to Secaucus, change    
   to NJT, and Airtrain.   
      
   I drive.   
      
   Unless I get a lecture invitation somewhere, I probably won't fly    
   again.   
      
   > I gather that there was a legal quirk that made it impossible to use    
   > airport money to pay for transport that wasn't entirely for the    
   > airport, leading to Airtrains. That law is changed so I think that it    
   > would now be legal to use LGA airport money to extend the N/W or to    
   > build a Jackson Heights airtrain that wasn't limited to airport trips.    
      
   The Port Authority is not interested in serving the public. Especially    
   under Christie, it was a money pit for paying off his friends.   
      
   > Fun fact: the EWR terminals already had cutouts for the airtrain    
   > terminals. The original idea was to extend PATH to the airport. Now    
   > the plan is to extend PATH to the train station so you still have to    
   > take the airtrain..   
      
   Lather, rinse, repeat.    
      
   What sort of provision does the new LGA terminal have? (That    
   was what I always used when traveling between Chicago and    
   Spuyten Duyvil (I try to avoid saying Riverdale).   
      
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