Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Cuomo Wants Elevated Train Link Built to La Guardia Airport

Grynbaum, Michael. "Cuomo Wants Elevated Train Link Built to La Guardia Airport." The New York Times. The New York Times, 20 Jan. 2015. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.


            The article that I read for my current events response was about Governor Cuomo’s proposition for an AirTrain to be built from Manhattan to La Guardia airport. This idea came in response to the fact that traveling to La Guardia from Manhattan, or really anywhere, is very painful, and it is a very long process. This is due to the fact that La Guardia is in Queens, which is full of heavy traffic,  but Cuomo believes his new AirTrain, if successfully approved, and built, could greatly decrease travel times to La Guardia, and make traveling out of this airport much easier in general. I strongly agree with this idea, and hope that the New York Government follows through on it.                                                                                                                                                                            What this article is talking about has a very big impact on me and the people around me. This is because I live in an area of New York that is near Manhattan, and so I fly out of La Guardia occasionally when traveling. I have experienced first- hand the agony that driving to this airport presents, and I firmly agree that something needs to be done about this. The AirTrain that Governor Cuomo is proposing could therefore have a big positive impact on my life, because I would save a lot of time using it to get to La Guardia. This would not only have this impact on me, but on the millions of people who live in and around Manhattan. Therefore, Governor Cuomo’s idea could change the way that all of these people travel.                                                                                                                       The information in the article was not the only thing I noticed when reading it, and I noticed some things that the author of the article did well, and other things that he did not do as well. For example, the article was kind of biased as it focused mainly on the good aspects of the AirTrain, and not the bad. This made it so that people reading the article are more likely to think the AirTrain is a good idea, and ideally, they should get all the facts and decide for themselves. Also, the article did not do a good job of explaining how, and if, the project will be approved. Therefore, it is hard to get a sense of how likely this project is to actually happen, and this is something that a reader would want to know for sure. Despite doing these things poorly, the author did a good job of showing the pros of the new project, and he did a good job of showing where the Air Train would be located. These things help to give people a better idea of what the AirTrain will be like, and when writing, you want the readers to be as knowledgeable about your topic as possible. All in all, this was a very good article, and it gave me important information about something that may very well affect my life someday.

1 comment:

  1. This article review by Billy Ramundo was very interesting and provided great information about the AirTrain idea. I thought that the review provided a great summary, and told the readers great information. He did a good job on explaining the impact that the AirTrain would have on the lives of millions of people. Mr. Ramundo also did a very good job on criticizing the author. Billy’s critique explained how the author of the article did not write about the cons of the AirTrain, only the pros. If you look at the article, Billy was correct, and it is an important thing for the author to include to provide all the information to the readers. One thing that Billy could have improved in his article was talk about how much it costs to build the AirTrain, as it talked about that in the article. Other than that comment, I think Billy’s article was written very well and followed everything on the rubric. One thing that I learned from this article was the whole idea of introducing an AirTrain for La Guardia. I thought this was a very good idea because La Guardia is the second biggest airport in New York, behind JFK, and introducing an easy way to get there from Manhattan would bring in a lot of money and make it easier for many people.

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