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Re:Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Air... by screye on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:25PM (#39795031)
It is a slow subway train that requires transfers at Jamaica to the airtrain and then an internal airport people mover. Some people need multiple transfers from

WTC/Penn/14th street are centrally connected stations that should have a direct connection to JFK.

Run an express A-C-E train from central-park, 34th, 14th, WTC, Atlantic, Jamaica, JFK. It should not be that hard. While we are at it, run an express downtown manhattan to Newark train/BRT too. LaGuardia is....hopeless.

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Re:Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Air... by mulmen on Friday March 22, 2024 @06:06PM (#39795363)
The upstream comment ambiguously suggested a train as a solution to an 8-10 hour door to door LA to NYC travel time. Either that means connecting the airport to the city by rail or the cities themselves. Sub-8-hour LA to NYC by train is beyond any currently known technology. JFK is already connected to NYC’s subway by rail.
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Re:Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Air... by floating-io on Friday March 22, 2024 @07:28PM (#39795926)
> Sub-8-hour LA to NYC by train is beyond any currently known technology.

But oh so close!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26589001

;)

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