In message , at 23:07:30 on Wed, 6 Nov 2019,
Recliner remarked:
John Levine wrote:
In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:
majority. Plus all the less confident ones who inherently distrust
foreign commuter services rather than airport expresses.

Can't be many of them.

I think it's a majority. Local commuter services have a poor reputation,
the New York subways being the poster boy.

The NY subway doesn't go to LGA and only goes to JFK airport with a
long slow trip out to Queens with a connection to the Airtrain so I'm
not too surprised. The Long Island Railroad also goes to that
Airtrain much faster and lots of people take it. The NJ Transit train
goes to Newark airport via another airtrain and it's also quite
popular.

Elsewhere in North America, the subway or local commuter train goes to
the airports in Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington
DC (National), Atlanta, Chicago (both airports), Dallas, St Louis, San
Francisco, Portland OR, Seattle, Vancouver, and probably other places
I haven't been to. In each case there's been plenty of people on the
train with me with suitcases.


And the same is true in London of course. The Tube runs a much more
frequent (12 tph vs 4 tph), but slower stopping service to Heathrow, and
the trains are packed with suitcases and travellers (many of them foreign).
It carries significantly more pax than HEx and TfL Rail combined.

"The Piccadilly Line accounts for the bulk of the rail and tube journeys to
Heathrow (42 per cent of all air passenger journeys to the airport by
public transport and 16 per cent of all air passenger journeys to the
airport by all modes)."

That's fine for the people comfortable using it. HEx is for the
passengers who would in normal circumstances take a taxi.

https://bettertransport.org.uk/sites...ch-files/surfa
ce-access-final.pdf


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Roland Perry