# Talk:JFK Express

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Reviewer: Truflip99 (talk · contribs) 17:58, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


### Lead
Its route bullet was colored turquoise and contained an aircraft symbol. (If you want, you can specify that this is an AIGA symbol.)
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### Fares and rolling stock
The premium fare for the JFK Express was collected by train conductors on board I think the fare information in the history section should be moved here.
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wikilink Transit police
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A fourth car was later added, making them 300 feet (91 m) long, half the length of a typical B Division train.
Might want to bundle/omit sources per WP:OVERKILL
 Done--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:17, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


### Service history
#### 1st p
There is a previous instance of 57th Street, which should be the one wikilinked
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#### 2nd p
Within a few years of its inauguration, the service was being criticized as being a poor use of resources.
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JFK Airport, Kennedy Airport, etc. I would use just one alt name and "the airport" so readers aren't confused.
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#### 3rd p
The proposal was still being reviewed by January 1984; it never came to fruition. -- and move the ref after the period
 Done--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:15, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


#### 4th p
omit comma after October 29, 1989
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... between these two stations during those times
 Done--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:24, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

At all(?) other times, some passengers paid the extra fare to use the JFK Express to reach Aqueduct Racetrack. -- Could you elaborate on this one a little further? Why only "some" passengers paid?
 Done--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:24, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


#### 5th p
At the time, 3,200 people were using the train per day, down from a high of between 4,000 and 5,000 riders that used it at the beginning of the service's operation.
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#### 6th p
However, This extension was short-lived as the JFK Express was discontinued on April 15, 1990 due to low ridership, which recorded as few as 3,200 riders per day.
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WP:OVERKILL
Ridership on the A to the airport increased after the discontinuation of the JFK Express: in 1995, about 1 million passengers used the A to the Airport. -- semi-colon instead of colon
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#### 7th p
Since the discontinuation of the JFK Express, the A train has continued to serve the Howard Beach–JFK Airport station.
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move ref 27 at the end of the next comma
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A proposal, referred to as the Lower Manhattan–Jamaica/JFK Transportation Project...
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### Final route
Source for the station list?
 Done--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:10, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


### Sources
Great article! Not really much to edit as it is written well. --Truflip99 (talk) 17:58, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

@Truflip99: Thanks for taking up this article. I believe that I have addressed all this issues. Thanks again.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:25, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
Awesome work! Thank you for the prompt response, per usual! Congrats! --Truflip99 (talk) 19:36, 7 June 2019 (UTC)