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I live in St Louis. The city has trains running from downtown to Lambert Airport. There’s also a proposed extension on the current line running to the Metro-East which will connect downtown to Mid-America Airport. In the future, St Louis will join the short list of cities that have passenger rails running directly to two airports.
Construction on the extension to MidAmerica is due to begin in fall 2022. It’s currently in the design phase.
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Although I've never used it, I believe St. Louis' LRT stops at 2 different terminals, but that's the only one I can think of that is roughly similar to Philly's SEPTA commuter train.
This is correct that the MetroLink has two stops at Lambert, but I’ll be the first to point out that the Terminal 1 stop is far more convenient than the Terminal 2 stop. The Terminal 2 stop you have to cut through a parking garage in order to access the train station.
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I live in DFW. One thing I wondered bout your analysis is driving distance to downtown and the importance of intermediary stops along the way. Per Google Maps, HJ Airport is 15 miles to downtown while DFW is 21 miles. For some cities there is limited stopping between downtown and the airport because their is no reason to. DFW has three major employment centers along the airport route - Las Colinas, the Medical District and Victory Park, a 70 acre mixed use development with the American Airlines Center, office buildings, condos, a W Hotel, and hi-rise apartments.
Second, I also wonder about the general setup of metro area. For example, DFW has two rail lines now serving it, one to Dallas and now from downtown Fort Worth. A third, a cross-county line, is under construction to DFW serving north Dallas and several northern suburbs - Coppell, Addison and Plan. Last, relative to others you've mentioned, the price is very affordable at 3 bucks one way.
Oh and did you do an analysis of the Denver Rail link?
Thanks
Are you asking me? Or the guy in the video? I think his analysis towards the end of each airport mentioned mostly focused on distance walking from your airport baggage claim to a train stop, train headway time at the airport stations, and then travel time to the downtown. Cleveland for example he mentioned as having incredible low wait times for a train at the airport station and extremely short distance to the primary downtown train station in the city.
At DCA the Project Journey, and new security gates development just completed two weeks ago. This video starts at the bottom of the escalators inside of the Metro station and shows the path to either ticket counters or directly to security checkpoints. The entire video is only 6 minutes, and from the Metro station to the security checkpoints is a less than 3 mins walk. Hard to beat that kind of convenience. I think Atlanta and Cleveland are the only other airports that have this type of proximity and convenience to this degree.
Are you asking me? Or the guy in the video? I think his analysis towards the end of each airport mentioned mostly focused on distance walking from your airport baggage claim to a train stop, train headway time at the airport stations, and then travel time to the downtown. Cleveland for example he mentioned as having incredible low wait times for a train at the airport station and extremely short distance to the primary downtown train station in the city.
My mistake, my post was directed toward the guy who posted the video.
The airtrain & then LIRR to Penn. The original post said which airports have a train to downtown. It didnt say it had to be a direct connection.
It was phrased ambiguously, but I believe that the intent of the title was to ask whether a city has one or more lines that travel from an airport to downtown, not multiple lines combined to make that trip.
NYC does? From which airport? For some reason I thought that was a big gap of NYC.
Newark.
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