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Originally Posted by MichaelB
I fly in and out of Austin on average twice a month.
I also think that with the amount of festival traffice we have, and a very walkable downtown…there would be lots of visitors who would be well served by an airport to downtown connection.
Seems important to the cities growth and "usability" ….if thats a word!
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I agree, and I think most voters would also. People have been around the world, or at least the country, and they can see that places with real transit systems have a line to the airport. As well as lines through the main travel corridors of the city, but that's another matter.
People arguing that another, non-central corridor route would get better numbers are likely using the same iffy projections that were used to justify the project connect routing, red line, etc.. Probably using the same folks that estimate COTA attendance!
Anyway, a line to the airport may have lower numbers than the fantasy planner ones, but they are 100 times more "real". There really will be folks who take the train to the airport, and visitors who use it to get to the city. That is not a projection, it's a guarantee.