AirTrain

What's the general feeling about Air Train?

It seems like a true boondoggle to me. You have to get to Jamaica to
catch air train, but there's no convenient transfer from either the
subway or the LIRR. Who planned this, and who approved it? More
importantly, who got paid off?

Chris

Michael Steiner wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > Under a very loose definition of "connected." Go be a sightseer and ride
> > its two arms and make the connections; then imagine yourself doing it
> > with even a moderate amount of luggage.
>
> Hmm, i don't understand what everybody is grumbling here: If you pack
> reasonably (i.e., public transport-traveler like and not car-traveler
> like with twenty bags) this is not a big deal. I live 15min from the
> Subway in the UES and still make it reliably in less than 1hr to JFK,
> i.e., certainly not much slower if at all (think rush hour ...) than by
> car/bus.
>
> Of course, having a (more) direct connection to my door would be more
> convenient than changing at two places as well as walking some distance
> and it doesn't beat many public transport connectivity in Europe (e.g.,
> Zurich, Frankfurt, ..). However, AirTrain certainly brought an
> improvement over the prior situation?

The prior situation was a free shuttle bus from the A train to the
terminals.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net