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Posted by Charles G on Thu Mar 6 13:21:41 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by Terrapin Station on Thu Mar 6 12:37:18 2008. Exactly! It's not promoting transit any better than the bus was! Imagine how many people would use it if it was a free MetroCard transfer!It looks like I've been correct all along, that the people using HB are the same people who would have used it with the shuttle buses. These people either don't know about the ped toll, or know but don't care because it is still the best option for them. As such, the PA is able to collect revenue from everyone who used to use this connection for free. But it hasn't attracted any new users! And that was supposed to be the point! So the PA improved the service and started charing $5 for it, but for what point? No more people are using it than used the free shuttle bus! So if they had just left the free bus, it would be the same as today. No, you're grossly twisting the numbers. There are another 240,000+ passengers per month using AirTrain via Jamaica, and (apparently) countless others arriving via the Q10 bus in mass protest of the pedestrian toll. Many of the riders at Jamaica used the HB connection before they had a choice. AirTrain ridership via Howard Beach is up from 80,000 per month when AirTrain first opened, to the 120,000 per month today. Those are clearly new riders. |
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