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I think this guy is living in a mass transit dream world, at least in the American context. Even if city mass transit systems were now allowed to serve multipl
by supernova87a 6y ago
I think this guy is living in a mass transit dream world, at least in the American context.
Even if city mass transit systems were now allowed to serve multiple airport terminal buildings, the number of cities able to pay for, let alone plan for and build such extensions to their lines is near 0.
Basically, this provision only provides benefit to a new airport (or new terminal building) going up, with a willing city metro system planning for a subway line that the airport planners also design to be integrated. The uncoordination of city infrastructure in the USA is too pervasive for us to have some NRT/HND/LHR/FRA style rail-to-airport intermodal paradise.
I cannot think of a single existing US airport where this could be taken advantage of in practice in the next 20 years. And the number of new major airport terminal buildings that have gone up in cities with metro systems in the last 20 years I can count on a single hand. We will be forever stuck with a shitty bus to LaGuardia.
And btw, our problem isn't getting subway lines to go to more terminals. It seems to be getting the subway to stop before it hits the terminal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEe5b_KkACw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEe5b_KkACw
- sofixa 6y agoMaybe we read a different article, but in this one it literally says: > Silver Line in D.C Is the one for which the rules were changed and the one in the process of being built, so that's at least one
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