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Posted by NIMBYkiller on Fri Jan 23 10:55:43 2015, in response to Case Against LGA Link, posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Jan 20 22:13:03 2015. No one will deny your ridership stats for LGA. A maxed out airport won't see much additional ridership even if the airlines started paying the passengers to fly out of there. Likewise, LGA isn't really suffering because of it's lack of rail service, because, as noted, it's maxed out. The problem is that our road network is maxed out and we need to start making dents where reasonably possible. We can sit here and debate why one project is more important than the other, but if we sit here and argue about why a different project is more important than whatever one we're discussing, nothing will ever get built. Fact is that LGA contributes a portion of the traffic congestion. GCP slows down in the area, the airport is hell to navigate during peak hours, etc. You quote an avg travel time of 41 mins to LGA. My friend, I drive a charter bus in Manhattan almost daily and I can tell you from experience, it could easily take 41 mins just to get across Manhattan at rush hour. I've done Red Hook to 23rd/3rd in 20 mins, just to spend 45 mins getting from 23rd/3rd to 6th/58th. An LGA rail service will provide more reliable and consistent travel times to the airport and will remove a small portion of the traffic from our highways. |
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