I had a similar issue with an airport. I had a flight delay and got stuck in Miami for a day, so I had to find an Uber at 2 AM. Ubers were about $60 from the airport, but I noticed if I walked about ten minutes over to a nearby hotel and got an Uber from there it would be about $20. I plugged the hotel into Google Maps, Google goes “Yeah sure, here’s the walking directions!”, and I start walking only to realize that it’s telling me to walk down the shoulder of an eight lane highway.
There was no safe, pedestrian way to leave the airport. Not even to a hotel less than a mile away.
Airports tend to be like that in the west, it was similar when I visited Mexico too. A taxi right outside the airport was a lot more expensive than the taxis across the street. The airport used to have a overhead walk way (which did suck to travel with luggage since it was quite a few steps), but I’m pretty sure they removed it since and the airport is on a major highway.
The airports in Montreal has a bunch of shuttles. Pretty much every nearby hotel runs a shuttle. But it’s not walkable there either.
I had a similar issue with an airport. I had a flight delay and got stuck in Miami for a day, so I had to find an Uber at 2 AM. Ubers were about $60 from the airport, but I noticed if I walked about ten minutes over to a nearby hotel and got an Uber from there it would be about $20. I plugged the hotel into Google Maps, Google goes “Yeah sure, here’s the walking directions!”, and I start walking only to realize that it’s telling me to walk down the shoulder of an eight lane highway.
There was no safe, pedestrian way to leave the airport. Not even to a hotel less than a mile away.
Airports tend to be like that in the west, it was similar when I visited Mexico too. A taxi right outside the airport was a lot more expensive than the taxis across the street. The airport used to have a overhead walk way (which did suck to travel with luggage since it was quite a few steps), but I’m pretty sure they removed it since and the airport is on a major highway.
The airports in Montreal has a bunch of shuttles. Pretty much every nearby hotel runs a shuttle. But it’s not walkable there either.
Montréal has the 747 bus for now, soon™ to he replaced with the REM