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The first of the driverless AirTrain rail cars that will carry riders between Kennedy Airport and stations in Howard Beach and Jamaica have arrived.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to get the full complement of 32 fully automated cars, at a cost of $2 million each, for the light-rail system by the fall, authority officials said yesterday.
The first car arrived in November and the second earlier this year. Both have been tested at short distances on guideways at the airport, where crews completed laying the system's foundation on March 2.
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