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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Mar 9 11:56:18 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Mar 9 11:21:06 2008. If there was no highway robbery style $5 ped toll, the numbers at HB would be much higher.That's opinion. But even if true, anything would have more ridership if "it was free". It would also cause an upheaval in the way passengers are dispensed vs Jamaica, which can better handle the traffic. Again, IMMEDIATELY, when Jamaica became a viable alternative, it cannabilized some of Howard Beaches rides just by being available as an alternative. Howard Beach has held it's own, even though Jamaica (increased the choices, thus made every mode lose percentage as another slice was added (a major slice besides). What RIPTAHope fails to see with his percentage chart and graph for Howard Beach is that with Jamaica taking 226,769 passengers into the airport, that is a MAJOR percentage that didn't exist before, so of COURSE Howard Beach's percentage will be lower than it once was before Jamaica was there. You can't look at the percentages without considering the fact that Jamaica added a major slice of pie to the mix. People that say "Jamaica is irrelevant" are completely wrong, it MAJORLY skews the percentages, and passenger counts. And even through all that, Howard Beach STILL holds as many passengers as it once did, and PARKING went WAY down. These figures don't lie. AirTrain is not nearly the "flop" you had tried to make it out to be in the beginning of this thread. NOW more than ever, thanks to Charles giving us real numbers to look a, instead of all the speculation that was rabid here, shows even a stronger case than ever against the AirTrain bashers. |
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