Almost every single one of theee vehicles gumming up the rideshare pickup area at JFK Terminal 1 are private vehicles, not TLC vehicles whose riders pay a fee to access the airport. This is exactly why we should charge drivers $8.50 to use JFK’s roadways and make the AirTrain free.
It’s absolutely bonkers. Every single vehicle curbside here hasn’t moved since I got here 10 minutes ago, some are entirely shut off, one is even unoccupied (!), and a Port Authority cop walked by and did absolutely nothing.
same for Chicago. I *usually* take the train, but times I've taken a cab/ride-share, I've never witnessed any congestion (to be fair, same for LGA recently). Legit took us 30 minutes to get OUT of BOS in a car.
Both the airport in Houston and Tampa has security that would make you move after 5 minutes in the drop off and you only had 2 minutes in pickup before they told you to move
Which does something worse: it encourages people to rely on private vehicles for rides. So that vehicle is mostly empty in one direction, whereas a rideshare vehicle can, in theory, be full of passengers both to and from the airport. (On the bright side, at least the new APM will be free!)
Well if it didn't take 1-2.5 hours to get to JFK from Manhattan/NNJ maybe so many people wouldn't drive. The MTA & Port Authority are also to blame here. & I want congestion pricing as much as anyone. But they create these crises by building cool whalebone stations instead of fixing service.
Not sure what you're talking about. What MTA shenanigans? The main reason we don't have direct transit access to the airports is because the Port Authority runs their own little fiefdom.
