Comments on: The inanity of airport connectors

By: Montreal Limo

Montreal Limo — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:47:00 +0000

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Limo Montreal — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:57:00 +0000

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By: Montreal Limousine

Montreal Limousine — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:37:00 +0000

Airport connectors are poorly integrated with existing transit systems and usually have only two stops—a local hub and the airport—they offer little or no secondary benefits or opportunities for transit-oriented development.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:41:00 +0000

I landed in Newark once returning from vacation and it took me forever to wait for the *&#! bus 62 or the other one that goes to the Upper East Side. So I like the airbus. My question on airport monorails is why don’t they make it part of a network of public transit trains? Wouldn’t that encourage public transit usage in the sprawling areas where the airports reside? Or for that matter, why not extend a regular train route to the airports? Of course, one disadvantage is the crowded trains you have to take, with all your luggage taking up space. That’s what you have to do if you take the E train to JFK in NYC.

By: Mike Orr

Mike Orr — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:04:00 +0000

“Travel times are now twice as long.”

The trip increased from 28 minutes to 37 minutes. It’s also 33-50% more frequent until 9:30pm, and 100% more frequent after that. So the wait+travel time is a wash, and people hate waiting even more than they hate slow trips.

That “28 minutes” assumes no traffic or accidents on the freeway. The train also created new express service to the airport from southeast Seattle neighborhoods, and the next phase will provide that to northeast Seattle and the suburbs. The time loss travelling east-west is around three minutes, not the end of the world, and it allowed one neighborhood (Beacon Hill) to get a station that would otherwise have no station.

By: Anon256

Anon256 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:27:00 +0000

The NJT #62 bus gets from Newark Airport to Newark Penn Station for $1.50, running every 15 minutes all day long, and PATH gets from there to NYC for $1.75. This is much more useful than the costly and infrequent monorail-to-commuter rail option. As for subsidising the latter, when transit systems can’t even afford to keep running the basic services that people of all incomes need to get to work and school, there’s no way they can justify the huge cost of providing a gold-plated transit experience for a trip made only infrequently and only by people who can afford to spend hundreds of dollars on a flight. A potential compromise would be to fund the airport connector through a surcharge on plane tickets to and from the airport in question, but as an “ordinary traveller” I’m quite happy to keep my cheaper airfare and ride the #62 bus.

By: Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:52:26 +0000

Of course there are worse things that arriving tired in a city and having to pay for a cab. Like, say, living 24/7 in an auto-centric world without a car or access to transit, which is bound to happen more often when scare public funds are wasted on projects like airport connectors.