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Billion-dollar budget for new international terminal at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport rising again
The city council approved the IAH Terminal Redevelopment Program, better known as ITRP, with an initial price tag of $700 to $900 million dollars. Where does the budget for ITRP sit today? At $1.3 billion, according to Houston Airport System. (www.click2houston.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Only a politician could take a cost overrun of 900 million reduced to a cost overrun of 400 million and call it a savings. And with Mayor Turner, who knows where the 400 million or any portion of the budget actually ends up (and into whose pockets)?
wow sounds like when Denver built the new airport.
Stapleton had issues, and the new one is HUGE. I flew through there in October 2019, just before, well, you know.
It was a damn huge airport! Gigantic I'd say. Stapleton was smaller, and had notorious issues with their baggage handling system, and needed to be replaced, but the new airport is so far out of town. It's quite a drive. But it's there. Found a great-ish place for lunch, and got out on time. What more can you ask for, except maybe some public transportation to get there, and back. (Or FROM there, and back)
It was gigantic, but actually pretty busy... I've heard that Stapleton was far more congested, and hectic.
It was a damn huge airport! Gigantic I'd say. Stapleton was smaller, and had notorious issues with their baggage handling system, and needed to be replaced, but the new airport is so far out of town. It's quite a drive. But it's there. Found a great-ish place for lunch, and got out on time. What more can you ask for, except maybe some public transportation to get there, and back. (Or FROM there, and back)
It was gigantic, but actually pretty busy... I've heard that Stapleton was far more congested, and hectic.
RTD is supposed to be adding light rail to DIA. I moved from there in 2009 so I'm out of the loop. I did commute from there to my crew in STL and didn't have too much trouble either taking RTD 169LTD or have my wife drop me off or pick me up. It is aways fro downtown Denver though. I lived in Aurora so it wasn't so bad for me.
The light rail link between DEN and downtown has done for a while. Used it in 2017 when staying downtown for a get together.
Say what you will about Stapleton, but you can't say it was far out of town. I used it often. Easy to get to and easy to get home from it. Who needs a great-ish airport restaurant. Tons of them in Denver