I very much welcome your suggestions, feedback, and corrections. Please e-mail me if you have ideas on how to improve this guide. Cheers, Minh T. Nguyen (he/him/his) minh@minh.org New York, October 2013 This guide was last updated in February 2024. ...
wasteful, polluting (more local traffic due to toll avoidance) and unfair aspects of road tolling, when the gasoline tax is a much simpler, fairer, cleaner, and efficient means of paying to build and maintain roads. Below is our updated (somewhat :) ) verison of this post, 16 years later!
the LIRR and Metro-North’s diesel locomotives average about 20 times the mechanical failure rate of electric multiple units (source, PDF-pp. 36 and 151). It is bad enough that Germany is keeping some outer regional rail branches in the exurbs of Berlin and Munich unwired...
And when one considers how much money it costs for mobilization, you’d think they’d have figured out by now that once you’re in the ground, you just shouldn’t ever stop. It’s cheaper just to crawl along a little bit every year than it is to stop, wait 2 or 3 generations, a...
"Business is booming so much that Metro-North has considered building an extension into Pennsylvania Station and rehabilitating an old east-west line, which would run from Beacon in Dutchess County to the Brewster station in Putnam.""'We've always viewed the train as our connection to the ...
If speed is your priority then you can take the JFK AirTrain and connect with the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), though it will cost you about twice as much as using the subway.Again, at the airport follow the signs to the AirTrain and take it to Jamaica Station. ...
Cost: There is a flat fare of $70 from Manhattan to JFK This does not include tip or bridge tolls, which should also be calculated into your fare. There are additional surcharges that will cost between $5-$10 depending on the time of day and where in Manhattan you are picked up. ...