- JFK airport requires a shuttle train to connect with the New York subway. The shuttle train costs

Martin joined the blog in Fall 2007 and became Editor-in-Chief in 2009. He is originally from suburban DC, but has lived in the Greater Seattle area since 1997. He lives with his family in Columbia City and splits his work time as a Communications Engineer between the Eastgate area and Tukwila.
Yet, what I continue to fail to understand is why is a 6 minute walk from SeaTac/Airport Station to SeaTac national auto rentals airport, or a 10 minute walk from Columbia City Station to Rainier Avenue national auto rentals a quick and easy walk, but a 1 minute walk from Bellevue Station to Bellevue Transit Center is an unacceptably long walk.
2) If you are headed beyond Bellevue TC, your actual national auto rentals walking time is longer. I timed it once and got 3 minutes from future Link Station to BTC (including 1 1/2 minutes of waiting to cross 110th), and 9 minutes to the front door of Bellevue Square.
It s not 1 min. It depends on where you get our of the train. From one end to the other can be a minute. Then wait for stairs national auto rentals that are clogged or elevator. The cross a major arterial. Then cross the bus lanes. Then you got another three or more minutes if you bus is in bay 1 or you have to hike to the middle to look at the map and figure out where your bus actually national auto rentals will arrive. If I leave meetings at City Hall I have to allow 10 minutes to catch a 249 at bay 1. But all this wouldn t be so dumb ass stupid if they weren t spending ~$200 million on a tunnel that actually has a negative impact on operations and will cause major construction disruption. Think tunnel under SEA terminal and then put the station at the exit as far away as it is now.
The difference is how many people are transferring to buses. At BTC a large number of people transfer to buses to Crossroads, Kirkland, national auto rentals Factoria, Eastgate, etc. A 2-minute hole in the middle of your trip is a bummer, and will turn some riders to their cars cursing at the low-quality transit system. In contrast, most people at SeaTac or Columbia City stations are going to the airport or Columbia City; they re not transit centers .
Here s all I know. I continually see Excuse of the Week posts that describe a 10 minute walk as being short and easy, and I also see lot s of posts and comments decrying a 1 minute walk from Bellevue national auto rentals Station to BTC as being too long and grueling. And as long as I continue to read inconsistent statements, I will continue to come here and point out your inconsistencies. You can try to explain it away all you want, but I m not buying it. If a 1 minute national auto rentals walk is a hardship and difficult, then a 10 minute walk is ten times as difficult. It can t be short and easy.
Here s all I know. I continually see editorials decrying the state of the American education system. But what I done learned in the one-of-a-kind pre-fabricated public school I went to don t you go blocking my view of it is that 6=10 and 3=1 and that all situations are the same regardless of context. That s why I take pediatric national auto rentals vitamins despite being 45 and why I schedule regular mammograms despite being a man. My doctor sat me down and tried to give me contextual mumbo-jumbos, but I m far too thick for that so I m going to keep coming to his office to point out his inconsistencies.
I continually see Excuse of the Week posts that describe a 10 minute walk as being short and easy, and I also see lot's of posts and comments decrying a 1 minute walk from Bellevue Station to BTC as being too long and grueling.
As others have pointed out, not one minute. But seriously, are you really pretending to not understand the distinction between a walk in the context of a leisurely outing and a walk in the context of a 10X a week commute?
From Denny to Mercer is about 1/4 mile. From 15th Ave NW to 20th Ave NW is about 1/4 mile. 20th is pretty close to the middle of downtown Ballard. In fact, 15th is at the edge of downtown Ballard. D.P.: your sense of distance national auto rentals could use a little work. 15th totally makes sense as the rapidride trunk line. But I do agree that Sea-Tac Station could be closer to the airplane gates.
Yeah, right? Who wouldn t want to trudge miles in the cold and wind? We should thank our overlords for even deigning to let us taxpayers fork over billions of dollars for the worst brand-new airport connection in the developed world!
Food for thought: if the Port resisted a closer station because they worried it would undermine rental car taxes and parking revenues, does it not stand to reason that the final outcome is having negative consequences beyond us being whiners ?
Meanwhile, there s a first-time visitor down at the bottom of the thread asking about the Link- SLUS connection, because he s worried about the 1.5 miles from Link to his hotel, with bags and kids in tow. Didn t have the heart to tell him that depending on his airline, his airport- Link connection could be almost as far:
You can cut about 5 minutes off by walking diagonally across the gigantarage. Of course, national auto rentals what signage exists orders you not to do this. And doing so further reminds of (or foreshadows, for first-time visitors) national auto rentals the palpable second-class status transit users hold in this town.
So it s Link s fault that it takes ten minutes to walk from one end of the airport to the other? Every large airport is like that, as I remember when I had to run from Customs to a Halifax national auto rentals gate in Toronto s airport.
Putting it 1000 feet to the north of the northernmost access point of a functionally-linear terminal, with a trudge across the hey, look how much closer you could be if you drove garage as a cherry on top, is the kind of bush-league crap with which Link is becoming synonymous. national auto rentals Defend past abominations and you legitimize future ones.
Did you forget that the station was going to be right at the terminal until 9/11 happened and the feds freaked and forced it further away? If ST had gotten what it ideally wanted, SeaTac station would be at the terminal, the MLK segment would be on or under Rainier Avenue, a Graham station would have been within budget, and East Link would be on Bellevue Way and open in 2021.
- JFK airport requires a shuttle train to connect with the New York subway. The shuttle train costs $5 to ride and does not accept passes, even though it s only a mile or so. And once you finally national auto rentals do make it on the subway, it moves a lot slower than Link does, Ranier Valley detour or no.
- Logan airport in Boston national auto rentals is served only by buses, not rail. The silver line does run about as frequently as Link does, only it gets stuck in all the pick-up-and-drop-off traffic at each of the 5 terminals, in addition to lacking HOV lanes through the I-90 tunnel out of the airport, and getting bogged down in stoplights getting off the freeway and into the bus tunnel downtown (just like our buses do). The bus was also extremely crowded. This is a perfect example of a bus line that desperately needs to be converted to rail.
- San Francisco airport requires that you board a shuttle train to connect to Bart, as BART doesn t get any closer than the long-term parking garage. Even then, you end up at an airport BART station, which half the train bypass without stopping. Off-peak headways of trains that actually serve the airport station are inferior national auto rentals to Link. To reach CalTrain, it s even worse you have to ride the shuttle train, then hop on BART for one stop to reach the CalTrain station. Be prepared for long waits, as CalTrain only runs once per hour outside of rush hour.
- Washington national auto rentals Dullas is served directly by an hourly bus. If you don t feel like waiting that long, you can spend $15 for an every-30-minutes shuttle to West Falls Church, national auto rentals and pick up the Orange Line there. Dullas is also such a huge airport, it can easily take 30 minutes of walking through the terminal just to get to any kind of ground national auto rentals transportation.
All in all, If I know exactly where to go, walk fast, and have no bags to check, I can be on a Link train, moving, in as little as 15 minutes after stepping off the plane. This is much better than tons of other airports.
BART and JFK are retrofits, and good ones. As already discussed, BART s service drawbacks do not diminish the fact that the SFO station is 200 feet from the closest gates and 1500 feet from the furthest. The people mover connection is excellent, but even without it your walk is significantly less than for nearly half of SeaTac.
And Boston s Silver Line is a great BRT fraud, but you don t even need it. The Blue Line shuttles run constantly, with different lines for different terminals, and it takes all of 6 minutes to get downtown on the train. The Silver Line exists for one-seat obsessives and travelers who fear Hispanic people. Nobody pretends it s an airport train, and nobody would walk a damned mile to it.
(p.s. Mike, we ve never seen even a shred of evidence of that 9/11 -based claim. Not even a mealy-mouthed Port or ST source, much less a document from any federal agency. I consider it baseless speculation.)
national auto rentals (Shoot. I didn t even notice ASDF s repetition of his Newark ignorance, seemingly the result of a one-time glance at the Jersey Coast Line schedule blossomed into a deeply national auto rentals held misconception. Check the Northeast Corridor schedule, you [ad hominem]. national auto rentals When combined, trains to the city are practically national auto rentals constant. And again, the silly EWR monorail is a retrofit, and offers no excuse for a direct train with a craptacular walk.)
You can t call direct connections and indirect connections separate when, at the end of the day, what really matters is how long does it take to get from the airport to your transit station. Whether it s 10 minutes national auto rentals of walking, or 5 minutes national auto rentals waiting for a shuttle + 5 minutes national auto rentals riding the shuttle doesn t make that much difference, at the end of the day, it s still 10 minutes. If you have luggage, that s what wheels are for. Have lots of luggage? That s what smart carts are for.
For example, if ST wanted to, they could have never built the SeaTac airport station in the first place, and kept the temporary shuttle from the old 194 bus stop to TIBS as the permanent solution. By