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Posted by Terrapin Station on Fri Mar 7 00:54:46 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by Charles G on Thu Mar 6 22:38:49 2008. I'm not trying to justify any such thing. I just take a bit of offense to your willingness to jump to a negative conclusion about an organization without having shown any willingness to research or consider alternatives to your own opinion.Sorry, I couldn't jump to that negative conclusion any faster. The day I found out there would be a $5 fare from HB to ride through the parking lot, my mind was instantly made up. And then later, some time before service started IIRC, when I found out about the fare inequity at HB, it just proved my point a million times over. It's disgusting that a quasi-governmental-bistate-agency would do something like this. And it's almost as bad that they've been able to pull it off for so long now. But that's due in part to my never having lodged any formal complaints. I've just voted with my feet thus far. As respects people riding for free from the parking lot, you don't really know that either. Perhaps long-term parking fees at JFK include a component that is intended to represent the average fare that would be paid on the AirTrain. Something along the lines of -- "assume 1.5 persons per vehicle, so $15 per vehicle of every parking fee collected will be considered AirTrain revenue". That's really stretching it. If they did want to include a charge, then they could just charge per person with fare gates. Since they aren't, it's pretty clear they are not charging people who park for riding airtrain. In fact, the long term rates at all three airports are basically the same, and LGA doesn't have an airtrain, and EWR's airtrain doesn't serve the long term lot. Also, the PA states openly that airtrain is free if you park. |
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