From: jishnu@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   On 6/10/2014 12:42 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > Jishnu Mukerji  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I don't think anyone really believes that the EWR station was a   
   >> boondoggle. PANYNJ might want to operate it sufficiently incompetently   
   >> to make it look like a boondoggle given their inherent anti-rail bias,   
   >> and they may be succeeding at it at least with hancock.   
   >   
   > According to Amtrak's Great American Station site, it opened in 2001,   
   > and cost more than $400 million. This New York Times articles says   
   > $415 million for terminal, track for AirTrain extension to the Corridor,   
   > and six new consists. I've got to believe the $415 million included the   
   > Corridor train station.   
   >   
   > The original intramural route cost $354 million when it opened in 1996,   
   > and had needed substantial repairs over the first several years, one of   
   > which cost $25 million and shut it down for three months.   
   >   
   > http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/22/nyregion/road-and-rail-newar   
   -s-train-to-the-plane.html   
   >   
   > I'll call it a boondoggle; haven't seen the price tag on the most recent   
   > repair work. I think your suggestion about routing intercity trains directly   
   > to air terminals would have been cheaper.   
   >   
      
   The Airtrain is a boondoggle. I was not talking about that. It should   
   have been PATH from the getgo, eventually enhanced with a mainline   
   station. But as I said all that is water under the bridge. PATH will now   
   get built to only the EWR rail station. The first opportunity to fix   
   this will come if they ever go forward with the third runway project.   
      
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