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Posted by Charles G on Thu Mar 6 22:16:14 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 6 15:21:37 2008. Not only would not extending AirTrain to the subway sever the existing connection from the subway to the airport, I also don't think a single station would adequately serve a parking lot that size.Of course it would. Go check out the satellite photos on Yahoo Maps, Google Maps or Mapquest. Nearly nobody actually parks near the Howard Beach station. 90% of the time there are enough spaces in the eastern section of the lot near Lefferts Blvd. The other 10% of the time, they could just run a couple of extra shuttle buses. I assume that includes trips coming from Jamaica. The real test is how much growth there has been at Howard Beach. That is correct. It includes trip from Jamaica, but does not include trips coming from the Q10 and other local buses. As a result, it is somewhat difficult to draw a solid conclusion from any of the data. In short, however -- if 120K people per month were using public transit to the airport via Howard Beach before AirTrain, and shortly after AirTrain service began there were 160K using public transit (80K at Jamaica and 80K at HB), I think it's a safe assumption that there were people who switched from HB to Jamaica as their point of entry. Since that time, HB ridership has gone back up to 120K+ per month (these are also late 2006 stats -- so it could be different now, the trend is pretty clearly upward), so you have about 50% growth in a 3-4 year period at Howard Beach. |
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