"At Newark, the PA is wasting $3.5 billion on the wrong technology and a system that is little better than the lousy AirTrain being replaced. The only difference is that the old 1996 AirTrain is a monorail, a warm weather only train that is fine at Disney World, but has problems when it gets below freezing, which surprisingly it does every winter in Jersey."
"The new AirTrain will be a cable pull, like the San Francisco cable cars, and will be forever limited to the airport grounds, never being a one-seat ride. It should instead run on steel wheels with a standard gauge of 4 feet, 8½ inches and then run on either PATH tracks or NJT and Amtrak tracks into Newark Penn and then Manhattan."
"Chicago has two airports, both have one-seat rides to the Loop. D.C. has two airports, both with one-seat rides into downtown Washington. London has two airports, both have one-seat rides to the center of the city. Paris has two airports, both have one-seat rides to the city center. New York has three airports, none of them with one-seat rides."
The Port Authority is breaking ground for a new AirTrain at Newark Airport that will be a cable-pulled system confined to airport grounds and will not provide a one-seat ride to Newark Penn Station or Manhattan. The project is budgeted at $3.5 billion and replaces a 1996 monorail that performs poorly in freezing temperatures. The new system will be limited to airport property and will not connect to regional rail infrastructure. A standard-gauge, steel-wheel system capable of running on PATH, NJ Transit, or Amtrak tracks would enable a direct one-seat ride into city centers, matching other major cities' airport rail links.
Read at New York Daily News
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