I know little about LaGuardia (other than what I observed landing as a passenger a couple of times), but couldn’t New York City and the state greatly increase passenger safety, while at the same time eliminating a longtime scandal and drug-plagued correctional facility, by closing Rikers Island and extending both main LaGuardia runways over to the island? Build a new state-of-the-art prison out in the boondocks somewhere, demolish the old Rikers facilities (maybe leave some as a museum, like Alcatraz), then set the earth movers to work.
“I know little about LaGuardia (other than what I observed landing as a passenger a couple of times), but couldn’t New York City and the state greatly increase passenger safety, while at the same time eliminating a longtime scandal and drug-plagued correctional facility, by closing Rikers Island and extending both main LaGuardia runways over to the island? Build a new state-of-the-art prison out in the boondocks somewhere, demolish the old Rikers facilities (maybe leave some as a museum, like Alcatraz), then set the earth movers to work.”
Then you have to build some really high walls, send in Ernest Borgnine in a cabbie outfit, get Kurt Russell and Adrienne Barbeau back in there with Harry Dean Stanton.
THAT would be a cracker jack prison!
No, seriously, LaGuardia’s not that bad an airport. I can only imagine how crowded it would be getting into NY/NJ without it.
They all have some degree of gun and drug running going on. This is Obama’s transformed America, after all. I have Baraq’s personal email server here in my home office.