NEW YORK | LaGuardia Airport Redevelopment

[Busy Bee]

The flight operations things is total nonsense.

What's most astonishing about this whole saga is that there was no apparent foresight on anyone's part to create a rough underground shell for a future subway/regional rail station and a rough idea of how an approach right-of-way would work WHILE SPENDING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO REBUILD LAGUARDIA! What city or country does that? No other alpha city would forego bothering to plan for such a link even if the details were unsettled. But this is the kind of thibg you get when there is essentially no long term transit vision for a region that is agreed upon - or even prepared - and the planning and projects you do see is usually done at the behest and whims of politicians instead of a well funded and universally supported transportation authority. Think TfL. Think RATP. Think MTR.

[k1052]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

The flight operations things is total nonsense.

What's most astonishing about this whole saga is that there was no apparent foresight on anyone's part to create a rough underground shell for a future subway/regional rail station and a rough idea of how an approach right-of-way would work WHILE SPENDING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO REBUILD LAGUARDIA!

Well Cuomo had his plan and that was that. Until it wasn't and he wasn't.

It does occur to me that they could just run a spur off the LIRR at Willets right to the airport over the GCP. It's not like the Port Washington branch is running rapid transit schedules and doesn't have room for an airport shuttle to Grand Central every 10 or so minutes. Buy a few FLIRTs and install fare control at the airport station.