From: otterpower@xhotmail.com   
      
   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 closed on average three to four nights a week,   
   supposedly for maintenance. A major pain for the many flights arriving   
   at night with passengers who use hotel and parking shuttles that are not   
   allowed at the terminals but have to the remote AirTrain Station P4.   
   Just one more of the many user-unfriendly features added to the Newark   
   experience.   
      
      
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