Crazy Transit Pitches

[TheRatmeister]

To do this you need a real inter-city high speed rail hub at the airport (for example at JFK), like the TGV model at CDG. A multi-transfer rail option on conventional subway (which is very luggage unfriendly) is not going to get people to mode-shift from short hop regional air.

Newark and BWI (And TF Green I guess) already have this, PHL would be easy to add since there's already a rail line through the airport, DCA would be easy since the VRE is right next to it, LGA could be added with a shuttle bus or APM transfer station above Astoria Blvd, and JFK could be added by running all Penn Station terminating trains to Jamaica. That basically just leaves BOS and IAD.

And before anyone brings up the shuttle transfer, CDG has that too. It's pretty standard.

 

[JeffDowntown]

Newark and BWI (And TF Green I guess) already have this, PHL would be easy to add since there's already a rail line through the airport, DCA would be easy since the VRE is right next to it, LGA could be added with a shuttle bus or APM transfer station above Astoria Blvd, and JFK could be added by running all Penn Station terminating trains to Jamaica. That basically just leaves BOS and IAD.

And before anyone brings up the shuttle transfer, CDG has that too. It's pretty standard.

Yes, but the big difference is that CDG has a real high-speed rail network that reaches virtually every corner of France, and mostly a one-seat ride, directly from Terminal 2 at CDG. You literally take the escalator down to the train platform. Nothing in the NEC is equivalent.