Sex Scandal Reveals Opposition to AirTrain

In 2004, a sex scandal led the Portland media to reveal to people that the city was run by a light-rail mafia. Since then, I’ve told people in other cities that, if their region builds rail transit, they better hope for a sex scandal so they can find out where their money went.

Artist’s conception of proposed LaGuardia AirTrain provided courtesy of the office of the soon-to-be ex-governor.

New York City residents are lucky: a sex scandal there may derail a wasteful 2-mile-long “people mover” (automated guideway) project that the Antiplanner critiqued a year ago, noting that it “will cost $2 billion, make traffic congestion worse, dump 87,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and probably isn’t necessary due to the pandemic.” The project was supported by Governor Andrew Cuomo, who this week agreed to resign due to sexual harassment claims.

Cuomo’s imminent departure has made it safe for project opponents within the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which would have built the project, to publicly raise their objections to it. Less than six hours after Cuomo’s announcement, dozens of Port Authority staffers signed a letter sent to the agency director asking him to kill the project.

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Based on the EIS, the Federal Transit Administration agreed to help fund the people mover last month. But the authors of the letter (who asked to remain anonymous until Cuomo has left office) call into question that document’s reliability. For example, the EIS estimated that, if the people mover is built, it would increase transit’s share of travel to the airport from 6 to 10 percent, a number that is especially questionable considering the pandemic’s affect on peoples’ willingness to ride transit.

Even without knowing about possible manipulation of the data, the Antiplanner was able to show that the project was stupid. The EIS admitted that, even with the projected increase in transit usage, traffic congestion around the airport would increase if the project is built.

Thanks to Cuomo’s planned resignation, New York City has a chance to save taxpayers $2 billion or more on a wasteful and irksome project. Too bad taxpayers in Portland and other light-rail cities didn’t have the same opportunity.