Despite ruling the world our public agencies and labor is so fucking Bulkanized and corrupt that I have not faith that any of this is an investment with a descent return on investment. Even if you assign a per estimated rider number to Second Avenue Subway its a fucking rip off ($50,000 per annual rider). Look at this from the cynical point of view and you come to the conclusion that PANYNJ is spending $30,000,000,00 on building more god damn malls. Look at their last transit project, the WTC1 Station, no new transit was actually added and it was all spent on a fucking mall.
New & Expanded Port Authority Bus Terminal ($10,000,000,000.00)
-Seams like for that much money would could build a new bus terminal in Secaucus with a 7 train extension. Because it makes a lot of sense to cram even more low capacity transit buses into the Lincoln Tunnel and into midtown.
LaGuardia "expansion" and New Airtran:
-First of all the Airtran is going in the wrong direction, to flushing, the 7 and a difficult to transfer branch of the LIRR. Pretty much all buses heading to LGA will get you there faster than this weird Airtran branch, except if you live on the Port Washington Branch of the LIRR or in Flushing.
-Despite the "last mile" convenience of LGA to rich people, it is a pretty useless airport only handling 30 million a year, but causes significant ATC issues in the north east, including Philly. Cannot increase size of runways and it prevents all of North Eastern Queens from developing. Airport should be closed.
-Airport is certified leaky shit-hole.
Newark:
-Shit-hole needs investment, big time. Idiots at port authority only bought a 25 year monorail (airtrain) and it needs to be torn down. Rather then maintain the EWR train station and expand the PATH to it, the should probably expand the AIRTRAIN, (because they need to rebuild it anyway, not included in this budget) to Newark-Penn.
JFK:
-I like JFK. Don't really think it needs massive investment. Airtrain works fine, terminals are all acceptable, Sure terminal 4 is constantly 80 degrees but I see that more as a "Welcome to Europe, we do not have AC."
-But JFK has always had its terminals built by the airlines themselves, so most of that money will likely be private.
I've flown out of all three NYC airports. JFK was by far the worst experience, probably because of how sprawling it is. It was also in the afternoon, which likely didn't do me any favors.
Never had an issue with JFK's size, as long as I showed up to the right terminal.
Good. JFK, Newark and LaGuardia are literally national embarrassments.
I guess that won't help with the rude stupid security people though.
LAX is a shitstain too tbh.
I would much rather have them spend the monies on the Trans-Harbor freight tunnel the PANYNJ was originally created for and better regional transit for billions of riders who are local and not on malls for air travelers (which is where a lot of the expense will go to).
