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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 6 13:50:58 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by Charles G on Thu Mar 6 13:21:41 2008. Many of the riders at Jamaica used the HB connection before they had a choice.Correct, before they had a choice, many of the people that once used the only subway connection, the former bus, may have now shifted to Jamaica, so the initial "users" of HB may have shuffled, so even if HB handles the same more more users than it once did, it's already a win for transit, as not only have stats not went down, they have increased, and many of the people that once used HB may not even be using HB, but Jamaica instead, so that means many of the current users of HB are NEW users. 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. And a lot more than used the "bus". So this "it hinders mass transit use" is based out of nothing, as the reverse appears to be true. And that is a HEALTHY gain in people now using mass transit, and certainly it appears that people are not "protesting the conspiracy" as the AirTrain bashers try to promote happens. In fact quite tthe opposite appears to be true. |
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