US: A modern airport in Salt Lake City to link the mountains and the coasts
More than three years after construction was started to rebuild Salt Lake City International Airport and scrape away a collection of obsolete terminals, the contours of one of the nation’s largest air travel infrastructure projects are taking shape. The project is part of the $10b a year that airports invest to modernize infrastructure in the US, according to the Airports Council International-North America, a trade group in Washington. And the extensive renovation could help reduce public embarrassment about the condition of aging airports in the United States that cannot keep up with demand. In 2014, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. compared New York’s LaGuardia Airport to “some third-world country.” The $3.6b airport reconstruction project here is so big that it looks like a city emerging from the high plains along Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. Concrete pillars for the new 908,000-square-foot, $365m main terminal and for a $158.4m, 1.7 million-square-foot parking deck are in place. The steel outlines of the first half of the $671.6m, 827,000-square-foot South Concourse are also set. Nearly 1,000 construction workers and a battalion of vehicles and equipment are deployed on the 300-acre construction site. Story has more details. When the facilities are finished in 2023, they will provide this fast-growing metropolitan area with improved efficiency at one of the country’s busiest airports, a hub for nine airlines with 329 daily flights. Traffic has climbed to more than 23m travellers annually in an airport designed to serve fewer than half that number.<br/>
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US: A modern airport in Salt Lake City to link the mountains and the coasts
More than three years after construction was started to rebuild Salt Lake City International Airport and scrape away a collection of obsolete terminals, the contours of one of the nation’s largest air travel infrastructure projects are taking shape. The project is part of the $10b a year that airports invest to modernize infrastructure in the US, according to the Airports Council International-North America, a trade group in Washington. And the extensive renovation could help reduce public embarrassment about the condition of aging airports in the United States that cannot keep up with demand. In 2014, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. compared New York’s LaGuardia Airport to “some third-world country.” The $3.6b airport reconstruction project here is so big that it looks like a city emerging from the high plains along Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. Concrete pillars for the new 908,000-square-foot, $365m main terminal and for a $158.4m, 1.7 million-square-foot parking deck are in place. The steel outlines of the first half of the $671.6m, 827,000-square-foot South Concourse are also set. Nearly 1,000 construction workers and a battalion of vehicles and equipment are deployed on the 300-acre construction site. Story has more details. When the facilities are finished in 2023, they will provide this fast-growing metropolitan area with improved efficiency at one of the country’s busiest airports, a hub for nine airlines with 329 daily flights. Traffic has climbed to more than 23m travellers annually in an airport designed to serve fewer than half that number.<br/>
