On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:19 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > True, it isn't insanely speedy. I'm used to being stuck in traffic in > New York for an hour and a half going to Kennedy, which isn't even > outside the city limits. Perhaps my standards are too low, though -- > you are clearly right that much of the world does significantly better > at this point.
a certain perl hacker is a strong proponent of the manhattan-jfk helicopter. he notes that at $99 it is not quite twice as expensive as a taxi, and takes 11 minutes straight to a gate within the airport. he gleefully recounted a story where a friend refused to take the helicopter, got stuck in rainy traffic for 3 hours, missed his flight and had to spend the night at jfk. however, i note that all the public transport solutions i mentioned (heathrow, arlanda, or for that matter frankfurt, amsterdam, paris, madrid...) are not only much faster than nyc taxis but way cheaper. of course they can't beat the speed of the ny helicopter, though arlanda express comes close at about a sixth the price. -r
