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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Mar 5 22:52:57 2008, in response to Re: Air Train question, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Wed Mar 5 22:43:50 2008. 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.Yes, it can. I don't know of any other airport that charges for road access (to use the AirTrain basher's favorite phrase), but I don't see any harm in it. That would solve the kiss and ride people problem, again, even if no other airport does that (not that it matters). I think Dallas (not sure) or one of those airports has a case where only toll roads lead to the airport, so by default, you sort of "pay to drive to the airport". So while not really the same thing (as the NY roads leading to the airport are not toll roads. So go ahead, charge a toll on the Van Wyck of it makes the semantics problem go away. 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? A station that would not even have been built if not for the A train there. It wasn't needed for the parking lot, it only serves that out of the way corner of the lot by default, just because it is there. It wasn't built for the parking lot. |
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