LaGuardia AirTrain proposal officially canned by Port Authority, suggests airport shuttle bus instead
, shunning the long-contentious AirTrain and declaring the best option to be a new shuttle bus between the airport and the end of the N/W subway line in Astoria, Queens.
The Port Authority also advanced a proposal to improve the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s free Q70 bus to LaGuardia with transit signal priority in Jackson Heights and Woodside and a dedicated bus lane along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway shoulder between Northern and Astoria boulevards. After Cuomo resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal, and Hochul took the state’s reins, she moved toand commissioned the expert panel to come up with other suggestions.
“It’s so refreshing to see government leaders admit a mistake and change course before it’s too late,” said Riders Alliance spokesperson Danny Pearlstein. “The backwards boondoggle AirTrain belongs just where it landed, on the scrapheap of history. Much better bus service is the right answer both for Queens riders and the travelers who pass through their neighborhoods on the way to the airport.”
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