NA cities with direct rail link airport-downtown

Which cities in Canada and the USA have direct rail links from the
airport to downtown? Minneapolis has Metro Transit and Chicago
has the blue line 'L'. What others?


Pete

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Which cities in Canada and the USA have direct rail links from the
airport to downtown? Minneapolis has Metro Transit and Chicago
has the blue line 'L'. What others?


Pete



PDX
SFO
ATL
LAS (eventually)
STL
PVD (next year?)
Washington-Reagen (not been there, but heard something about it???)

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Which cities in Canada and the USA have direct rail links from the
airport to downtown? Minneapolis has Metro Transit and Chicago
has the blue line 'L'. What others?


Pete



PDX
SFO
ATL
LAS (eventually)
STL
PVD (next year?)
Washington-Reagen (not been there, but heard something about it???)




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Blake S wrote:

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Which cities in Canada and the USA have direct rail links from the
airport to downtown? Minneapolis has Metro Transit and Chicago
has the blue line 'L'. What others?

For Chicago, there's also the Orange Line 'L' to Midway. Also the South
Shore Line's station in South Bend is at the South Bend airport (but who
would fly to South Bend to get to Chicago? Maybe to Michigan City...)
http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/images/Chicago/SouthShore/AirportExterior.jpg

PDX
SFO
ATL
LAS (eventually)
STL
PVD (next year?)
Washington-Reagen (not been there, but heard something about it???)

Yes, the terminal building is right next to the Metro station.
http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/images/Washington/Metro/AirportPlatform.jpg

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Cleveland. (Red Line to downtown)
http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/images/Cleveland/Red/Airport.jpg

Philadelphia. (Regional Rail to downtown, er, Center City)

Milwaukee. (Amtrak just opened a station at the airport, on the
Milwaukee-Chicago route)

And if it doesn't have to be a one-seat ride:

Newark NJ (monorail to train to Penn Station in either Newark or New York)

New York (JFK) (Airtrain to Jamaica, where you can take either the subway
or the Long Island RR to Manhattan)

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Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA

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Which cities in Canada and the USA have direct rail links from the
airport to downtown? Minneapolis has Metro Transit and Chicago
has the blue line 'L'. What others?


Pete



PDX
SFO
ATL
LAS (eventually)
STL
PVD (next year?)
Washington-Reagen (not been there, but heard something about it???)




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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:34:16 GMT, "Pete" wrote:

Which cities in Canada and the USA have direct rail links from the
airport to downtown? Minneapolis has Metro Transit and Chicago
has the blue line 'L'. What others?

Newark International has New Jersey transit trains to Newark and
Manhattan.

Philadelphia international has direct trains to three different
stations in Philadelphia.
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In rec.travel.usa-canada TEP wrote:


While you are correct about this, the APTA table lists LR. As listed in
BWI's website:
"Light Rail service is available to downtown Baltimore and Hunt Valley from
BWI."

The rail also goes to DC from BWI.

And National Airport does have metro right there. Last week we went to the
Dominican Republic, flew back, got on metro took the train back to our
home (well, my husband walked home (about a half mile) and I waited for him
to drive to the station and pick up four suitcases. When we do backpack-
style travel, we can walk to the metro and take train to either DCA or BWI.

Juliey
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In rec.travel.usa-canada James Robinson wrote:
The intent of my list was to identify locations where there were bus
connections to nearby rail service. This was in addition to the APTA
list I cited, which already covered the airports with service directly
into the terminals, so I didn't repeat them. In some cases, the airports
included in my list were duplicates to the direct service list on the
APTA web site.

Baltimore is such a case, as it has both a light rail line into the
terminal, and a shuttle bus to the BWI Airport rail station where one
can catch either Amtrak or MARC trains. The MARC trains will take a
passenger into Baltimore or Washington DC.


Really? I was not aware of the light rail into the terminal.
But I come to BWI from DC, not from Baltimore, so this is one of those
experience limitations.

Julie

ORD - Shuttle bus to nearby Metra line

Again, from ORD's website:
"The Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line travels
between O'Hare and downtown Chicago."

As with Baltimore, this is an airport with both a direct connection (the
CTA Blue Line) and a shuttle bus to a nearby rail station on the North
Central line:

http://metrarail.com/Sched/ncs/ohare.shtml

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In rec.travel.usa-canada Pete wrote:
Because the OP was, I think, asking about local connections.

Actually I was thinking of cities like Vienna or Stockholm where
the
rail station is downstairs in one of the terminal buildings, and
this direct
rail link takes a passenger to a downtown station where he/she can
either walk to a downtown destination or walk through the station
to
connect to another rail or metro. I prefer trains much more than
busses.

Light rail from BWI will get you to Penn Station (railway) in
Baltimore, but you have to change once.

http://www.mtamaryland.com/services/...hedule/map.cfm

However this doesn't make much sense considering the short shuttle bus
ride to BWI's own rail station.

Juliana L Holm wrote:

In that case DCA (National Airport) qualifies (Subway comes to the Airport,
you can connect to Distance Rail at Union Station) but BWI, where you must
get on a shuttle for aobut 10 minutes to the on -airport rail station
does not.

As mentioned in another post, a light rail line does serve the BWI
airport. Here is a link to an airport map that shows the location of
the line:

http://www.bwiairport.com/customer_a..._services_map/

(Look near the bottom of the map, beside the International Terminal.)
The shuttle bus to the Amtrak/MARC train station leaves from a stop
close to the light rail station at the airport.