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   Message 545 of 3,261   
   Adam H. Kerman to Stephen Sprunk   
   Re: NWK EWR   
   10 Jun 14 19:13:38   
   
   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
   >On 10-Jun-14 12:24, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
      
   >>I really don't see how the rail station and AirTrain can be seen as   
   >>separate projects. If the station had been built in the early '90's   
   >>as a shuttle bus terminal without AirTrain, then it might have been   
   >>cost effective.   
      
   >>I prefer the idea of routing railroads through airports; it makes so   
   >>much more sense.   
      
   >Or, presumably, building airport terminals on top of railroads.  That   
   >makes a lot more sense to me than moving the railroad, where the two are   
   >already in reasonably close proximity as in this case and many others.   
      
   You don't want to look at the geography? In this case, you know, what we've   
   been discussing if you could be bothered to take context into account,   
   it sounds like the airport campus was to one side of the railroad. In   
   the case of both of Chicago's airports, railroads ran down the middle.   
      
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