re: Access to New Orleans Airport new terminal going to be a disaster.

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Wait. Something that is taking over 10 years to do, and isn't done, you are holding up as a model?

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Pay attention, it's an example of how long it takes to do a project like this in La. as well as an example of how local government can do things without begging for big brother to do it for them.

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They would have ended up with a more expensive, and less useful facility. No one in their right mind thought the state would act like this. Jindal et al took a giant shite on this because they don't like Mitch. Politics at the worst.

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What's the final bill on this project? Do you even know?

MSY could be remodeled for less, existing infrastructure could stay in place and the airport could remain a solid, local airport. Terminals A and B could have been replaced. C and D are fairly new.

In 2013 when Landrieu decided to build this Taj Mahal did the state of La. have more pressing highway needs? Yes we did.

If the airport was that big of a deal local govt. should have stepped up.

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One look at the S&W board thread on the first page of the O-T tells us how screwed up city government is. But... this situation is not something that can be pinned on the city.

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Alright so how do you get to the fricking airport?

We really gonna drive through a two lane neighborhood road? What an abortion.

Will the cab drivers and ubers still operate from the cell phone lot on airline? I really hope not. They are complete assholes 24/7 in that area impacting my drive to the office.

Cab drivers stay in the right lane on the airport rd until the final second to veer into the airline hwy turn lanes. They are just the fricking worst.

Uber is going to have a dedicated spot at the terminal. I read that. As far as cabs, I think they are going to have a waiting lot on the north side. they won't continue to use the cell phone lot on airline - a new cell phone lot is being created.

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The airport owns all that ghetto?

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They own all the empty land heading out to Veterans, yes.

They don't own the "ghetto" that borders it.

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Seems to me you could have torn down the existing ramp and had it go to ground level then to Bainbridge

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Wouldn't that cross the runway, or too close to the runway? I just assumed that's why they didn't so something similar. Otherwise, yeah, that's a great solution.

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You could have also had an exit at the parish line and built a new road to it from the new terminal. Lots of vacant land back there.

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I just looked at google maps. There's buildings pretty much from south of Vets all the way to the taxi way. Now, maybe they should have bought all those people out.

Perhaps you could have put something hard up against the 310 exit and hooked it around, but now you are talking about elevation over a swamp, which would no doubt drive the cost up.

I think the location of the Loyola flyover is the best place they can put it.

The airport bought most of those buildings. The large scrap metal place and others are already gone.


I was fine with the Loyloa flyover when it looked like option L was the plan, that was the diverging diamond intersection. Instead we got C which is the left entrance on ramp that starts in front of kenner seafood.

Here's a CityBusiness article about the overnight transition to the NT.

Program in place for overnight transition to new airport facility

I just realized the entrance to the new MSY is a fricking roundabout

Over / Under on how many accidents?