点评:We believe in public transportation. On our way back from Canada we began a long journey from Newark airport out to a town on the east end of Long Island. It takes an a train to the Newark train station to Penn Station to the Long Island Railroad to Ronkonkoma to where our car is waiting and then a 45 minute drive to our town. The air train is always very simple, but tonight it was extraordinarily slow in arriving. There was quite a buildup of travelers waiting for the air train and we were planning on taking the 8:40 train out of the Newark train station to Penn station. The wait was so long for the air train that we and a large group of people missed the 8:40, and on a Sunday night have to wait for the 9:23 train.
Who knows what impact that this will have on our train options on the Long Island Railroad. By the way, as we were waiting for our air train, three air trains arrived across the platform, heading in the opposite direction.
An air train innovation might be updates on where the perspective air train is in its travels. One of the interesting things about ordering an Uber is that One gets to watch the car cover the route to where you will be picked up. Our collective frustration at the air train station might have been eased a bit if we knew what was going on.
Our trip is a long one home and it will surely be compounded by or wait for the air train.
翻译:我们信赖公共交通。从加拿大返回的途中,我们从纽瓦克机场出发,开始了前往长岛东端小镇的漫长旅程。我们需要先乘坐机场快线到纽瓦克火车站,再转乘宾夕法尼亚车站,然后换乘长岛铁路,到达罗康科马,在那里我们的车停在那里,最后开车45分钟才能到达我们所在的小镇。机场快线通常都很便捷,但今晚它的到站速度却异常缓慢。当时有很多旅客在等待机场快线,我们原本计划乘坐8:40从纽瓦克火车站开往宾夕法尼亚车站的列车。由于机场快线的等待时间过长,我们和一大群人错过了8:40的列车,不得不等到9:23的列车,而这可是周日晚上。
谁知道这会对我们之后乘坐长岛铁路的选择造成什么影响。顺便一提,在我们等待机场快线的时候,有三列机场快线列车从对面的站台驶来,方向与我们相反。
一项关于机场快线的创新可能是提供列车行驶路线的实时更新。叫优步的一大乐趣在于,你可以看着车辆行驶到接客地点。如果我们事先知道列车的运行情况,或许就能缓解在机场快线车站的焦躁等待。
回家的路途遥远,等待机场快线无疑会让我们更加煎熬。