Monday, July 27, 2015

LaGuardia Airport To Be Completely Overhauled

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a $4 billion plan to rebuild LaGuardia Airport, the smallest of the three major airports serving the area of New York City.  The announcement came at a luncheon with Vice President Joe Biden was in attendance.  Biden had previously likened the airport to a "third world" facility.  The reconstruction of LaGuardia is part of a larger plan under which John F. Kennedy International Airport, Stewart Airport and Republic Airport on Long Island will receive improvements.

This plan reminds me of something that happened near where I live about 25 years ago.  One morning, a friend of mine drove past a gas station, which had a sign that said "Closed For Remodeling". That afternoon, when drove past the same place, the gas station had been completely demolished.  A new gas station was then built where the old one had been.  LaGuardia Airport appears headed to a similar fate.

Read more at CNBC, The Verge and ABC News.

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