Monorail at EWR to possibly be closed for up to 4 months?
Sep 10, 2000, 8:59 am
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The monorail closed Friday night/Saturday mornng at midnight.
Last night (Saturday) around 9:30pm it was a horror, as all the off-airport shuttle buses and the monorail bus were doing pickup/dropoffs outside the same door on the departure level at Terminal C. Plus the inside lane was blocked off by cones in order to make a taxi stand outside the same door. Ugh! Glad I won't be there tonight.
Last night (Saturday) around 9:30pm it was a horror, as all the off-airport shuttle buses and the monorail bus were doing pickup/dropoffs outside the same door on the departure level at Terminal C. Plus the inside lane was blocked off by cones in order to make a taxi stand outside the same door. Ugh! Glad I won't be there tonight.
Sep 11, 2000, 6:42 am
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FOur paws up for this post NJDAVID!
I'm going to miss the monorail too because if I'm landing at Terminal C (as in Continental) and the lines at the taxis are too long, I do a (soon to be not so) secret trick and take the rail to Terminal A where most times the taxi line is less...
But I think EWR is adding a new amusement ride: "The BUS of BEASTS:" Angry and confused travelers moving like frightened sheep and angry wolves trying to find the right bus to the right terminal!!
YIKES! Can we bring A&E over here to film this nightmare for the next sequence of "Airport" documentaries?
I'm going to miss the monorail too because if I'm landing at Terminal C (as in Continental) and the lines at the taxis are too long, I do a (soon to be not so) secret trick and take the rail to Terminal A where most times the taxi line is less...
But I think EWR is adding a new amusement ride: "The BUS of BEASTS:" Angry and confused travelers moving like frightened sheep and angry wolves trying to find the right bus to the right terminal!!
YIKES! Can we bring A&E over here to film this nightmare for the next sequence of "Airport" documentaries?
Oct 16, 2000, 2:07 pm
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I consider it to be EWR's answer to the not-so-nice car rental mess at SFO. Now we have both coasts almost equally balanced in regard to cattle-drive and/or passenger-herding prize.
Go through both of these in one day and you will go bonkers!
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Go through both of these in one day and you will go bonkers!
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Dec 20, 2000, 12:30 pm
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It was announced today that the EWR monorail will actually not be able to open by New Years Day, as had been suggested.
They'll need more time to install heaters and for some "additional testing!" ;
So it's going to be another month or more!
Happy Holidays from the Port Authority!
They'll need more time to install heaters and for some "additional testing!" ;
So it's going to be another month or more!
Happy Holidays from the Port Authority!
Jan 26, 2001, 7:48 am
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The monorail will be out of service for at least another month. Officials had hoped to have trains between the terminals and parking areas back in operation by January 1, 2001 but a new heating system and riding surface are still not complete.
Yet, coming through EWR 2 days ago, I noted that they were testing it - and rumours abound that it will be in actual operation again next week!
We can only hope!
BTW- I also encountered 2 NWA pilots on the shuttle bus who both expressed much optimism about ongoing negotiations with mechanics and everyone else - and the industry in general!
Yet, coming through EWR 2 days ago, I noted that they were testing it - and rumours abound that it will be in actual operation again next week!
We can only hope!
BTW- I also encountered 2 NWA pilots on the shuttle bus who both expressed much optimism about ongoing negotiations with mechanics and everyone else - and the industry in general!
Feb 9, 2001, 5:18 pm
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I heard on the local (central New Jersey) radio station today that the monorail was on track to be operational by the end of this month. (fingers crossed)
Feb 9, 2001, 8:03 pm
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Yep, supposedly! I was just there and it's tough to believe! We can only hope!
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The USD$354 million Newark International Airport monorail, built four years ago, has already been out of service for repairs for five months - two months longer than planned.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said today that the monorail would be out of service at least until the end of this month, if not longer, while it conducted more tests needed to link the system to New Jersey Transit and Amtrak.
"I think you could say we're hopeful of having it back in service by the end of the month," said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the agency.
Early last year, the Port Authority announced that the monorail — a loop that carried 38,000 passengers a day to and from the airport's parking lots and three main terminals — would be shut down in September for repairs, after a design flaw resulted in rust damage to heating pipes that were supposed to keep the rail from icing over in cold weather.
Officials said that the USD$25 million cost of the repairs, as well as USD$9 million worth of extra buses that have been ferrying passengers in the meantime, is being borne by the contractor that built the monorail, ADtranz, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler that is being sold to Bombardier Inc., a Canadian company.
http://news.airwise.com/stories/2001/02/981749365.html
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The USD$354 million Newark International Airport monorail, built four years ago, has already been out of service for repairs for five months - two months longer than planned.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said today that the monorail would be out of service at least until the end of this month, if not longer, while it conducted more tests needed to link the system to New Jersey Transit and Amtrak.
"I think you could say we're hopeful of having it back in service by the end of the month," said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the agency.
Early last year, the Port Authority announced that the monorail — a loop that carried 38,000 passengers a day to and from the airport's parking lots and three main terminals — would be shut down in September for repairs, after a design flaw resulted in rust damage to heating pipes that were supposed to keep the rail from icing over in cold weather.
Officials said that the USD$25 million cost of the repairs, as well as USD$9 million worth of extra buses that have been ferrying passengers in the meantime, is being borne by the contractor that built the monorail, ADtranz, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler that is being sold to Bombardier Inc., a Canadian company.
http://news.airwise.com/stories/2001/02/981749365.html