From: johnl@taugh.com   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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..   
      
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