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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Mar 5 00:35:32 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by J trainloco on Tue Mar 4 22:11:45 2008. Having now taken a class on Transportation and architecture, I've seen a whole different viewpoint of the whole AIRtrain project. People who are either architects or planners (or studying to become one) generally find AIRtrain to be a poor solution to airport accessI've always found AirTrain to be clunky because it's an automated light rail (based on the BBD ART technology in use in Toronto, Vancouver, and Kuala Lumpur) system functioning as a people mover. It's forced to be a light rail system due to the need for a high speed solution to Jamaica Station. An interesting solution would have been for a subway extension along the Van Wyck with stops where necessary to connect with a people mover on the airport property near the current Federal Circle station on AirTrain. The downside is that this solution would have taken far longer to construct due to the need to connect the line with the rest of the subway system*, and the inability to use the airport's passenger finance charge to pay for this segment of the project. I question if NYCTA would have the money to pay for the extension, and if the PANYNJ would be willing to pay for the project out of pocket for NYCTA. Also, the current AirTrain solution sells itself as a quick "one-seat" ride from the LIRR at Jamaica station turns into a slow pokey two seat ride with maximum speeds approaching NYCTA's typical operating practices which is much lower than AirTrain's 60mph. *Who wants to rip up an extension that was barely 10 years old in 1998? |
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