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re: NOLA: "New airport 'like a Mercedes with flat tires'"
Posted on 11/12/19 at 8:09 am to tigerfoot
Posted on 11/12/19 at 8:09 am to tigerfoot
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This is somewhat surprising. They absolutely know all the volumes to expect and seem to have failed miserably. There are probably dozens of airport planning consultants that could’ve designed the flow to perfection. We probably let cousin Monty pick the paint and design the security details
If the city had ever had consultants worth a warm bucket of spit produce a long term plan this airport could have been special. They could have delayed some of the expensive changes to the old terminal and put that into the new. I think they were loathe to do some things at the new facility because they did not want questions about why they just wasted so much money on that at the old facility.
The new Indy airport, which has more gates than the new MSY with a million and a half less passengers, has their rental car facility in the garage connected to the airport. Most parking is also walkable. That takes a lot of shuttles our of the traffic. Building parking garages is certainly an economy of scale as each additional space built will lower the cost per space of construction. Since they were building a new facility I would have built the garages at the new MSY on the level of Disney at Disney Springs. Enough space to accommodate peak traffic 10 years for now and room for rental facilities and the uber/lyft wait area.
Posted on 11/12/19 at 8:18 am to Anaximander
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This post was edited on 1/20/20 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 11/12/19 at 8:19 am to Anaximander
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Building parking garages is certainly an economy of scale as each additional space built will lower the cost per space of construction. Since they were building a new facility I would have built the garages at the new MSY on the level of Disney at Disney Springs. Enough space to accommodate peak traffic 10 years for now and room for rental facilities and the uber/lyft wait area.
The "original" plan called for 30 gates and 1 garage. What got built was 35 gates and 2 garages.
I absolutely think not having a dedicated path to a direct uber/lyft zone is a huge miss. I wonder if part of this is because when the plans were produced, Uber/Lyft weren't as popular as they are now. The use of rideshare has exploded over the last few years, yet, it seems like it was an afterthought in their planning.
I know the airport gets a cut of taxi fares, do they get a cut of the Uber/Lyft fares? Do they have much of an incentive to do the right thing for the Uber/Lyft services?
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