O'Hare Airport Expansion Approved by FAA, Demolition Already Underway

Yahoo News/AP ^ | September 30, 2005 | Don Babwin

[fzx12345]

CHICAGO - The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday it has approved a $15 billion project to expand the delay-plagued O'Hare International Airport by reconfiguring the runways — a plan that requires destruction of hundreds of homes.

[fzx12345]

No word available on the percentage in kickbacks of $15 Billion pricetag.

[martin_fierro]

Great.

Even farther to walk between gates now.

[dts32041]

Daley crime machine strikes again.

Chicago sucks as a city to big to provincial to corrupt NOLA north.

[YouPosting2Me]

You will be able to travel from Chicago to Midway by just staying in the terminal (no need to get on a flight).

[donozark]

Ya. But you can always take those horizontal escalators. If they work...and if they had any.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Daley bulldozed Miegs Field in the dead of night, now its homes that he is destroying? What a freekin idiot!

[frankjr]

This will bring significant economic growth to the area. Plus next to the $250B+ that Landrieu and Blanco are demanding, this $15B is chump change.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Chicago is in no way comparable to NO. It may be almost as corrupt but that is about the only valid comparison.

BTW you might want to check on how to use "to" and "too" since you obviously don't know.

[dts32041]

Actually there is a valid comparison.

Ran by crime families.

Both demo rat run, both should have never been built, both have engineered river flows.

Both have had major death counts in a short period of time, one reported nationally, one that wasn't.

Chicago doesn't have a race pimp in charge, but will if JJ Junior runs.

More alike than different.

[GianniV]

Daley is going to get indicted some day. What an absolute tool this guy is. Always dreaming up new ways to steal more money from the taxpayers via new fees, taxes and parking restrictions. The guy is a clown.

What Chicagoland needs is a 3rd airport out west, where a lot of the population is moving. Heck, the people of Naperville could probably support their own airport.

Instead, we'll get O'Hare becoming even more of a pain in the ass while its under construction. All the while Daley and his goomba friends get rich.

[Tijeras_Slim]

You can star in "Survivor: O'Hare Edition".

[GallopingGhost]

Chicago sucks as a city to big to provincial to corrupt NOLA north.

Feel free to never visit here. You will NOT be missed. From all of Chicago I can say, your a jerk.

[martin_fierro]

[chilepepper]

i guess they want to get it ready for the Airbus 380 and the UN troops from France that will land there after Hitlery hands over US sovereignty...

[dts32041]

Was there last week by mistake.

That won't happen again.

I live 90 minutes away, no reason to go there, hate to run 80 to the south when I go east.

I have found one thing I like about Chicago WLS between 1100-1400 M-F Use to like from 5-9 on Saturday but now have to put up with it from 5-8 Saturday.

Chicago a city that needs a an enema and won't get it unless they elect the race pimp JJ Junior and turns it into Detroit west.

[stompk]

"a plan that requires destruction of hundreds of homes."

I wonder what kind of wonderful offers these lucky folks can look forward to ?

/sarc

[justshutupandtakeit]

New Orleans was a rathole Chicago is not.

Chicago is far better run than NO or most other big cities for that matter. Our criminals are at least competent. NO's are pathetically incompetent.

I hope your ability to comprehend other things is better than this example.

[fzx12345]

You can star in "Survivor: O'Hare Edition".

Believe me, I already have.

[fzx12345]

Even more importantly, there's a cemetary with 1300 tombs. Will they still be able to vote?

[YouPosting2Me]

There was a perfectly good air strip downtown on lake Michigan that was destroyed for no good reason (a park for the mayors wife?).

[stompk]

"Even more importantly, there's a cemetary with 1300 tombs. Will they still be able to vote?"


LOL. quote of the week.

[dts32041]

Yeah I see how well it is run every night, when I forget to turn the news channel.

BTW why would a tax payer want to live in that city, especially when you go outside the 294 beltway, prices drop 10 percent?

[Petruchio]

Odd.

No comments on the stupidity of the design? Converting to 6 E-W parallel runways.

Chicago is the windy city. Think back to all those clips of 747's crabbing at Kai Tek . . .

[Petruchio]

No Park = No nookie for King Richie II

was all the reason he needed

[fzx12345]

Kai Tak had an even more exciting approach than Juliana!

[The Brush]

BTW you might want to check on how to use "to" and "too" since you obviously don't know.

As an elder, wouldn't this sort of "observation" be better left unsaid?

[Petronski]

I'm afraid of those escalators...I'd hate to bet trapped in a power outage.

[ops33]

I must have missed something in the article, where did it state that the 6 parallel runways would be east-west?

[SmithL]

Not so fast:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494636/posts

[RWR8189]

What we definately don't need is an airport in Peotone.

Its 50 miles south of Chicago, and an absurd place to have another airport.

Expanding O'Hare is much better idea.

Say what you will about Daley, but he has done wonders for the city of Chicago.

Jesse Jackson Jr is probably next in line, so I'd stick with Daley as long as I can.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I attempt to prevent people from continuing in incorrect usages.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Never fear they will make out financially. Federally financed projects are under laws which make sure that they will. Even renters will be well compensated.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Because many neighborhoods in the City are wonderful places to live with far more options than the burbs. I have my choice of inexpensive restaurants, great stores, culture of the highest order, the Bears, the other sports teams. And I don't have to drive for hours to find something worth doing.

Of course the financial aspects are such that anyone willing to work can come here and make a good life for themselves. Opportunities abound. I know well the life of a small town and the limited opportunities for advancement and learning within them.

Cities have always defined civilizations and the American is no different. They are the producers of culture and the economic engines which power countries. In fact, the word "civilization" is derived from urban life.

[Petruchio]

A detailed map of the new layout is at: http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_ATTACH/final_alp.pdf

[dts32041]

Yeah right and if the food doesn't get in the culture goes out with the long pig, BTW the construction has been stopped.

[supercat]

The green lines are new runways and the brown lines are runways to be eliminated? Why eliminate runways? Or is that just Daley's "thing" as evidenced by Meigs?

[ops33]

Thank you for posting that. I looked for a diagram showing runway alignments at the O'Hare web site and could not find one.

[Petruchio]

Blue=Existing
Green=New
Gold=Removial
(This diag. does not even show 36 which is already closed)

That is my problem with his plan. In my view, there should be 3 runways in each of the 4 main directions.
36/18 - 4/22 - 9/27 - 13/31
Use L and R for landing, and C for takeoffs. This would minimize crabbing on finals with the large aircraft. Also would handle the numbers of aircraft going in and out of O'Hare. In chicago, the winds are not always east to west, or west to east. We get a lot of strong winds out of the North.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Food is the first requirement an advanced society secures. The first cities had walls that included their agricultural fields.

Cities are instrumental in the development of ideas and ideas control societies. Ideas are generated by the contact of minds and where thousands or millions are interacting the generation of ideas is speeded up. It is the ideas of science which have allowed agriculture to develop beyond poking a hole in the ground at a pre-selected date and praying to the gods.

Without the money and power of the cities agriculture dries up to basically a subsistence economy which would mean stagnation in every area. That was basically what the Dark Ages was. A reversion (because of the death of Rome and the network of cities associated with it) to local economy and cultural darkness. Only when the cities were reborn in Italy and gradually the rest of Europe did Western civilization resume its course of progress.

[sittnick]

What Chicagoland needs is a 3rd airport out west, where a lot of the population is moving. Heck, the people of Naperville could probably support their own airport.

Northwest flies out of the Greater Chicagoland International Airport in Rockford. It's closer than you think, especially when the parking lot is 40 feet from the door (free parking, too!!)

Some of the best flights of my life were out of Rockford's airport!

(New Yorkers should consider Stewert Airport or Twwed, in New Haven Connecticut)