Newsstand - Train to the Plane from NYC to EWR Opening Sunday

The "Train to the Plane" from NYC will be available for rapid access to EWR when it opens Sunday!

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Hurray! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

No link, doc? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

I get to EWR about 2100 Sunday, so I might be a first-day user!

They say it should be only about a 20 min ride. So enjoy! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Here is the website:
http://www.panynj.gov/airtrainnewark/

It ran, as scheduled, for the very first time this morning - ON TIME! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

So, I did it. See Trip Report:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum81/HTML/002227.html

Yes, congrat's on your "history-making" ride, as I see in reading your nicely detailed report that some considerable effort was actually required for a sucessful trip! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Are the monorails there to meet the trains? Or am I asking too much! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Even Sunday night, the monorail was running on a 4-minute headway, so it doesn't really matter.

It'll surely be faster than the usual traffic in any case, no? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

A new rail link has been opened between Newark International and central New York giving the airport its first fast connection with Manhattan.

It also gives Newark a head start over the city's JFK airport whose Air Train service will not be ready for another two years.

Trains from the new Airport station will run three times each hour

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2001/10/1003837247.html

[This message has been edited by doc (edited 10-23-2001).]

While I'm happy to see at least some service by rail to EWR, I still fail to understand how the Port Authority thinks this will lessen auto and bus traffic to the airports. From Manhattan, why would I take 2 trains (NJ Transit, monorail) to get to the airport when I could take one car or bus? It will be the same with the AirTrain from JFK - two trains needed to arrive in the city. If the PA really wants us to get off the roads (and if they don't, I sure do), then make it easy (one train), friendly (is an escalator to the platform too much to ask when nearly 100% of your pax will have luggage?), and fast (when it takes less time to travel by car, you're not going to get a whole lot of converts to rail).

Sorry to rail (no pun intended), but I still think the PA managed to spend billions of dollars on a less-than-ideal solution to airport transportation.

The Port Authority has been spending billions on imperfect projects for over 60 years. The Newark Airport access roadways alone have been completely rebuilt three times in the past 20 years. The pyramids have lasted many millenia, but the Port Authority never builds anything to last more than 10 years without redesign and reconstruction.

Continental Air in code-share pact with Amtrak

Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL - news) on Thursday said it had signed a code-sharing deal with Amtrak that allows the rail operator and the airline to share passengers and revenue at its Newark International Airport hub.

Continental, the No. 5 U.S. airline, said Amtrak will provide connections for its passengers from the airport to the rail operator's Northeast rail service.

The code share is scheduled to launch in mid-March and will allow travelers to make one reservation for both air and rail services.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020117/n17264553_1.html

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