AirTrain LaGuardia
AirTrain LGA is a proposed 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) people mover system and elevated railway in New York City that would provide service to LaGuardia Airport.[1] It would be built and operated under contract to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the operator of the airport, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
On January 20, 2015, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to build a people mover, similar to AirTrain JFK, running along the Grand Central Parkway. This people mover would connect the airport to Willets Point, and would connect there with the New York City Subway's 7 <7> trains at the Mets – Willets Point station and, via a passenger bridge, with the Long Island Rail Road's Mets – Willets Point station.[2] The estimated cost is $450 million.[3]
Currently LaGuardia has no rail service. The only public transportation is by bus, including the Q47, Q48, Q70, Q72, and M60 SBS lines. In 2014, 8% of LaGuardia's 27 million passengers took the bus, compared to 12% of the 53 million passengers using John F. Kennedy International Airport who took Airtrain JFK.[4]
History
The need for a rail connection to Laguardia has been recognized since at least the mid-1990s. In 2003, $645 million was budgeted to extend the New York City Subway N-line to the airport, but the extension was never built due to community opposition in Queens.[5] The New York metropolitan area's other two major airports have rail connections, with AirTrain Newark's rail link opening in 2000, and AirTrain JFK opening in 2003.
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