According to today's New York Times, the long-awaited station connecting the EWR Monorail to the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks will open on September 30. New Jersey Transit trains will stop there.

Here's a surprise: The fare will be $11.15 from New York's Penn Station and $6.65 from Newark's station. Those seem to be one-way fares. They are much higher than the one-way fares to much more distant destinations. For instance, one-way from New York to Princeton Junction is $8.90 peak! How can they charge more for traveling one-third as far? What would stop someone from buying a ticket to Princeton Junction (or someplace closer and cheaper) and just getting off at the Airport station? (This is a variation on the airline hidden-city trick!) Will they run special trains that just go to the airport and back?

Bruce