AirTrain plans to link La Guardia airport with rest of NY rail system

It appears a plan for a raillink to the La Guardia airport is in the pipeline, a move that would end decades of talk about connecting the airport to New York’s extensive rail system.

The development comes after New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday revealed plans to build an elevated “AirTrain” rail link that would run from the airport to a rail transit hub about 1.5 miles from LaGuardia. The Willets Point Station, which would be expanded under the proposal, sits near the Citi Field baseball stadium and offer links to New York’s No. 7 subway line as well as to the Long Island Rail Road commuter rail line.

“One can’t get to LaGuardia by train. That really is inexcusable, and that is going to change,” Cuomo said in a speech to the Association for a Better New York business group.

The rail link would be built similarly to the existing AirTrain operations that connect New York’s two other big airports to the region’s rail network. The JFK AirTrain takes fliers between the airport and the Long Island Rail Road as well as to several of the city’s subway lines. The Newark AirTrain provides a link between the airport and both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains. Riders can take New Jersey Transit trains into Manhattan as well as to many points in New Jersey.
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