[PRCo] Re: pat__service__cuts__2007.01.23-changed to 2/1/07

[Joshua Dunfield]

John Swindler wrote:
> It's a six zone trip in Philly.  The soaking of the airline passengers is 
> even more blatent at Newark.  Some have suggested it is to keep the cab 
> drivers happy.  I suspect it is a management decision not to let transit 
> interfere with the parking garage cash flow.

The only thing in Zone 6 is Trenton.  PHL is Zone 5.  Which, including
"Zone C", is technically the sixth zone.

I don't know, the Newark soaking may be an accurate assessment of what
the market will bear.

> The 28X comments are interesting.  Busways may be ok, but the buses still 
> get stuck in rush hour traffic.  Looked at experience with Overbrook LRT vs 
> South busway schedules at city end, then wondered whose decision it was to 
> go with an Airport busway (to use original selling point) rather then light 
> rail.

Building anything, LRT or busway, all the way out to the airport would have
cost a lot more.  And unlike the busway, you can't get a one-seat ride from
a "partway" LRT.

The Wabash bridge component would have helped a little, but as I recall, 28Xs
would still have had to traverse downtown streets.

-j.