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?
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 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.
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.
Two people here at Revolver have differing views on that question. One believes that traveling through an American airport is the best way to see the country’s decay, while the other proposes a different method: A trip to one of America’s many theme parks.I went to a theme park once... Once. That stupid talking mouse marked for me our cultural decline. But at least the park's avid capitalism was reassuring.
You know how you have to take off your shoes to get through the airport boarding gate because, once, 18years ago some Muslim had a bomb in his shoe????
Now think about your face masks.
3x the TSA workers as border patrol employees.
Rebuilding airports costs a lot of money. Instead, money that could be used for this and other infrastructure projects is being used to pay people not to work.
And for the record - I’m old enough to remember sprinting through the airport 5 minutes before my flight, throwing my backpack through the metal detector and in and out of security in under 30 seconds then literally jumping into the boarding gate as they closed the door.
Ahh - those were the days.
Or seeing friends and family off or arrive AT THE GATE as they deplaned.
Or watching the air traffic from the OUTDOOR observation decks.
I gather this journo hasn’t flown lately. Chicago? Houston? The smaller cities building constantly on their airports?
Denver has shithole airport too.