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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Wed Mar 5 22:43:50 2008, in response to Re: Air Train question, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Mar 5 22:26:56 2008. As far as I know, most airports don't charge paid parking drivers a fee for the airtrain/peoplemover to bring them to their terminals.There is no other airport that charges for its on-airport transit, period. The kiss and ride people luck out, I told you, there is no way to collect from them, without requiring all the parking lot people to somehow have a card after parking to access the airtrain. Instituting such a fare collection system there would probably cost more than the loss of revenue they have from the kiss and ride people. So yes, they luck out, but only because there is no other way to handle them. Since everyone driving into the airport is presumably using the airport and not just driving around in circles, a toll could be imposed the Van Wyck and JFK Expressways entering into the property. After all, they are using a service, the airport's roadway system. If imposing fare collection for these people would be cost prohibitive, why, then, would it make sense to charge transit riders extra to ride AirTrain, which required a special station redesign to accommodate three different payment zones? |
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