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The trouble with this plan is that downtown land is more expensive than rural land. The land area you need to efficiently build the check-in facilities will be
by brewdad 3y ago
The trouble with this plan is that downtown land is more expensive than rural land. The land area you need to efficiently build the check-in facilities will be similar whether you put it on site or away from the airport. So you'd spend more for the off-site and then still have to build a people mover that provides zero benefit to anyone not going to and from the airport.
It makes far more sense to build the airport far away and add a public rail service to it that can also serve non-airport passengers.
- TylerE 3y agoIn an urban environment you can build UP. Airports avoid structure over 40 or 50ft to avoid interfering with the controllers visibility. Instead of having one giant check in hall you could have one floor per airline, for instance.
- bluGill 3y agoAirports because of noise have plenty of space nobody else wants so building out isn't an issue.
- TylerE 3y agoThe exact issue under discussion is "We can't build airports where people can get to them because of how big loud and annoying they are". I am proposing a mitigation aka problem solving.
- bluGill 3y agoThat isn't a mitigation as making them smaller is not an option. They need to be large becouse of noise.