Posted on 07/18/2021 9:52:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I quit flying twenty years ago when I foresaw airports as being the prototype for the total surveillance state.
We should have made the airline industry wither and die for pioneering American fascism.
“LaGuardia Airport unveiled its newest, gleaming addition Tuesday with the opening of a modernistic concourse that will cost $3.9 billion.”
“The seven-gate concourse — Delta Air Lines’ Terminal C — is part of a larger $8 billion LaGuardia face-lift that’s projected to end with an entirely new structure in 2021.”
No, they just represent the decay that happens when WE THE PEOPLE allow the feds to unconstitutionally take over our private enterprises.
Hey, following 911, national security said the feds must screen passengers. Fine. The the feds NEVER stop at their narrow and limited legitimate function of protecting from enemy invasion (US Const., Art. IV, Sec. 4). They take over as much as they can once their foot is in the door.
DEREGULATE THE AIRLINES - once again!!!!
I wonder how much it’s going to cost to fix up the areas within five miles of the most northern 25 miles of I-95 in New Jersey?
Fortunately, my life is arranged such that I no longer have to travel through airports nor visit theme parks.
Buildings with people in them are falling down! Bridges are collapsing!
Don’t sweat the small stuff (airports)
Perhaps airport building should be left to private enterprise.
How much are you in for Delta? American? United?
We chose not to fly.
The rest areas on the interstates along the way were also mostly decrepit but that's the stuff of another post here.
I’m retired now, but when I was a software and electronics engineer, my specialty was systems design. Maintenance costs are by rule of Thumb to be 66% of the cost of a “system” during it’s lifetime, regardless of what that system is, a highway, and airplane, a ship, or an airport.
Democrats are good at having their unions build things and operate things, but Democrats never do very good at maintaining what we paid for.
For example, you build a house, but as soon as you finish it, it starts to “wear out”, even if nobody lives in it.
It needs maintenance no matter what. It needs even more maintenance if you use it.
I lived in Louisiana for 18 years. My folks and family were in Pennsylvania and I’d go back once or twice a year for family events and holidays. I never once flew, preferring instead to make the 20-22 hour drive straight through. It started out mostly as a dog thing - not wanting to put my dog(s) in a cargo crate, but after 9/11 it became as much a convenience thing. Between showing up at the airport an hour early, getting probed, layovers for connector flights, etc., you really lost a full day flying anyways, and then either need to rent a car at the airport, or inconvenience family to come pick you up.
I flew through LAX going to China a couple of years ago. LAX looks like it belongs in a 3rd world country, the Shanghai airport by comparison is very modern and clean. It’s amazing how far we have sunk.
We are probably not too far from electronuclearmagetic pods that will make planes and runways obsolete, along with roads and bridges.
Someone needs to write a travel book on the states with the best and worst rest stops.
I’m pretty sure Illinois has most of it’s Eisenhower era pit toilets while MN and WI have dog parks and playgrounds.
Just a minute buster!
Er... Wait. Airports?
Oh, I thought you were posting about me...
They’re not dilapidated so much as they’re old and rebuilding would require shutting down the terminals which they can’t do - or have lack of expansion space which they don’t have.
When I was out there 2 years ago they were in the midst of remodeling the Southwest terminal and the “new” areas were decent.
I’m not disagreeing with the general dilapidation of infrastructure in general - but that’s a trend of age and poor management by government officials who are voted in based on promises for more social programs over actual leaders overseeing the infrastructure and populace.
Ossama Bin Laden succeeded beyond his wildest dreams in causing the eventual destruction of America's freedoms.
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