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Arnold Reinhold wrote:

The JFK AirTrain is a project that New York City should be proud of.
It provides a fast, frequent, and quiet ride between the eight airline
terminals at Kennedy, a rental car center, long term parking and not
one, but two mass transit facilities. The AirTrain stations have

One of those mass transit facilities used to have *free*, regular,
quick shuttle-bus service to all areas at JFK. That shuttle bus
service was discontinued when the AirTrain came online. The result?
The AirTrain actually *increases* the cost and time required to
get from JFK to many parts of Manhattan -- any part served by the
"A" train of the subway system, and offers no improvement in
convenience whatsoever -- it's still a two-seat ride.

It just costs $7 now instead of $2. Yeah, that was worth spending
two billion dollars. *Sure* it was.

--
Thor Lancelot Simon
But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You
plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud