KCRag Forum

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:06 pmWhy?

Major KC Fan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:52 pm The new airport terminal won’t be completed for several years and the article implies that the transit system is projected for several years after that. We should know by the end of this year just how effective the vaccination effort against COVID will be.
Once we get back to “normal” and hopefully restart the economy, whatever rental car companies are left will be needed if travel returns to normal patterns. I actually think travel could explode due to pent up demand. I know we are eager to travel again. At that point the transit system could become a reality. We just need to study and plan now for the anticipated uptick.

alejandro46 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:20 pm I would also highly encourage the KCI team to use standard gauge rail versus a mono-rail type APM so that this can serve as a trailhead for a longer transit route to the airport in the decades down the road.

Sani wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:21 pm I don't know if it would make a huge difference to have the system coordinate with any future light rail, like MetroLink in St. Louis, or if the APM was an entirely separate system, like AirTrain at JFK or SFO. If the intra-airport transit is going to have multiple stations at the Rental Car Center, terminal, economy parking, etc., then having it as part of the light rail system means you have to make it free within the airport and then confirm fares are collected for any travel beyond the airport, assuming we can't do the fare-free setup on that system like we have for the Streetcar.

flyingember wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:08 amFree fare zones are done on other systems. I have 100% confidence that any future shared transit system at the airport could handle this well.
Take rail out of the picture, running city busses as a common system could work the same way.

Here's one example
https://www.rideuta.com/Fares-And-Passes/Free-Fare-Zone

normalthings wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:21 am Runway 1L is going to be rebuilt. This will become the main runway once the new terminal opens.

Sani wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:47 am

normalthings wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:21 am Runway 1L is going to be rebuilt. This will become the main runway once the new terminal opens.

What's the timeframe on that? I can see from the satellite view that 1R/19L was rebuilt sometime in the last few years.

earthling wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:19 am This is going up much faster than I expected. Is it ahead of schedule? How many on-site workers, peak concurrent.

normalthings wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:57 pm

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:26 pm Heather will be happy let's hope