計画(する)s for a NYC rail link to LaGuardia Airport now abandoned

計画(する)s for a rail link were abandoned Monday that would have connected LaGuardia Airport to New York City's subway and 通勤(学)者 rail system, after 激しい 批評 about its $2.4 billion-加える price tag and the 可能性のある 影響s on surrounding 近隣s.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul 受託するd the 推薦s made by a パネル盤 of transportation 専門家s who 決定するd it would be more feasible in the 近づく-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 to 増加する bus service and 追加する a 往復(する). Hochul's 活動/戦闘 効果的に means that LaGuardia - in the borough of Queens, across the East River from Manhattan - will remain の中で the major U.S. airports without rail service.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015 提案するd the 1.5-mile (2.4-キロメーター) elevated link, 類似の to one serving John F. Kennedy International Airport どこかよそで in Queens. The link was 想像するd to serve 空気/公表する 旅行者s who 現在/一般に rely on taxis and car services, and was 初めは 概算の to cost $450 million.

Hochul ordered a review of the 事業/計画(する) after Cuomo 辞職するd in 2021 まっただ中に a 性の いやがらせ スキャンダル. 批評 of the 計画(する) had 強めるd by then, with elected 公式の/役人s and 環境の 支持するs 説 the new rail would 害(を与える) the Queens 近隣s it 横断するd and wouldn´t be appreciably faster than 運動ing.

Democratic Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who 代表するs part of the area the link would have passed through, spoke out against it, as had former New Yo rk 市長 法案 de Blasio.

In a 訴訟 とじ込み/提出するd in 2021, 環境の and 近隣 groups asked the FAA to request the Port 当局 to pause the 事業/計画(する), 主張するing it was 押し進めるd through too 急速な/放蕩な by Cuomo and the Port 当局 and used 独断的な 審査 基準 to pre-empt meaningful consideration of 非常に/多数の 代案/選択肢s to the rail link.

FILE - The JFK airport Airtrain, left, travels on overhead tracks above Long Island Rail Road trains near Jamaica Station on Nov. 1, 2012, in Queens, N.Y. Plans to build a similar rail link connecting LaGuardia Airport to New York City's subway and commuter rail system were abandoned Monday, March 13, 2023, after intensive criticism about its $2.4 billion-plus price tag and its potential affect on city neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

FILE - The JFK airport Airtrain, left, travels on 総計費 跡をつけるs above Long Island Rail Road trains 近づく Jamaica 駅/配置する on Nov. 1, 2012, in Queens, N.Y. 計画(する)s to build a 類似の rail link connecting LaGuardia Airport to New York City's subway and 通勤(学)者 rail system were abandoned Monday, March 13, 2023, after 集中的な 批評 about its $2.4 billion-加える price tag and its 可能性のある 影響する/感情 on city 近隣s. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, とじ込み/提出する)

Some of those 代案/選択肢s 含む フェリー(で運ぶ) service, the 拡張 of 存在するing subway lines and optimized bus service using 献身的な 小道/航路s.

In a 用意が出来ている 解放(する) on Monday, Hochul thanked the airport's 操作者, the Port 当局 of New York and New Jersey, for "供給するing a (疑いを)晴らす, cost-効果的な path 今後."

"I 受託する the 推薦s of this 報告(する)/憶測, and I look 今後 to its 即座の 実施 by the Port 当局 in の近くに 調整 with our partners at the (主要都市の Transportation 当局), in the City of New York and the 連邦の 政府," she said.

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