Port Authority pauses LGA AirTrain project at Governor Hochul's request to consider a
As reported by amNewYork:
https://www.amny.com/transit/port-au...chuls-request/ Edited to add: The Port Authority was planning to build an AirTrain link between LGA and the Mets/Willets Point station on the LIRR and the #7 subway line. Governor Hochul has requested a pause so that other options can be considered. The problems with the Mets/Willets Point proposal that I see are: 1. The route takes passengers further away from Manhattan. 2. The Mets/Willets Point LIRR station is on the Port Washington line, the only LIRR line that does not go through Jamaica. Such a link would not facilitate transfers between LGA and JFK. 3. The existing Q70 SBS bus service offers a cheap and fast route between LGA and the Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue subway station, which is served by the #7 line and by four other subway line. The same Q70 bus goes on from the subway station to the LIRR Woodside station, which is served by multiple LIRR lines. |
Originally Posted by guv1976
(Post 33639281)
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Originally Posted by guv1976
(Post 33639281)
As reported by amNewYork:
3. The existing Q70 SBS bus service offers a cheap and fast route between LGA and the Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Avenue subway station, which is served by the #7 line and by four other subway line. The same Q70 bus goes on from the subway station to the LIRR Woodside station, which is served by multiple LIRR lines. The LGA AirTrain is nothing more than a glorified parking shuttle and an enormous waste of money. |
Originally Posted by themicah
(Post 33647183)
those who live on the Port Jeff LIRR line),
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This air train would have just about been a rational idea if it has gone to Jamaica to connect to the JFK airtrain (reducing a lot of road traffic thus reducing cingestion between the two reducing traffic and emissions) and to the wider LIRR network.plus the E,J and Z subway lines
But it wasn't going to do anything like that and any plans to extend it from Willets Point to Jamaica would have soon been dropped, |
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