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KCPowercat wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 7:12 pm

beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 6:47 pm Is the bridge to the terminals gone now? It looks like it’s just a hallway on the jet path and that jets will have to go around the gate building if going the opposite direction. Would have been cool to be in the bridge and have planes go underneath you.

I don't remember that being in edgmoor design ever, that was someone else's

beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 6:47 pm Is the bridge to the terminals gone now? It looks like it’s just a hallway on the jet path and that jets will have to go around the gate building if going the opposite direction. Would have been cool to be in the bridge and have planes go underneath you.

moderne wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:13 pm The bridge would only have been a big inconvenience having to go up and down escalators or elevators at each end.

chrizow wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:15 pm i've been to maybe 40 airports and, to be honest, other than LAX and DIA, i am not sure i can picture in my mind the exterior of any one of them. i can picture aspects of the interior of a few airports in my mind, but not b/c of striking design--mostly b/c of some bad memory of being delayed and being immersed in a (bland) environment.

i'm biased but i think all the exterior and interior wood sets KCI apart here.

warwickland wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:31 am
yeah...i mean usually one is pretty preoccupied when arriving at an airport. all i'm seeing is the airline blade signage and maybe the outdoor luggage check in. i was at seatac a few days ago and they had two lanes of parallel unloading at departures which meant that someone was nearly getting their door ripped off every few seconds. i can't remember what the current setup is at kci but don't do that.

langosta wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 8:13 pm

Deep foundations going in.

langosta wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:36 pm

langosta wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 8:13 pm

Deep foundations going in.

Highlander wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2019 8:11 pm

langosta wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:36 pm

langosta wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 8:13 pm

Deep foundations going in.

So past the demolition phase and into the early parts of construction? Great news. Looking forward to watching this go up. Get my first opportunity to see it at Christmas when flying in to KC.

flyingember wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:28 pmThe worst I ever saw was at 11pm at night. We flew Southwest back into town. I went to get the car while everyone else got luggage.

Outside the closest doors everyone exits with their luggage there were people loading cars from four of the six lanes. At one spot I had to angle across two lanes of traffic to let a father with a toddler aged kid get out of the road. He was stuck between lanes with people not letting him cross. Crosswalks don't really work in those situations and the doors don't line up with them anyways.

Anything will be better than that.

Sani wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:19 am

flyingember wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:28 pmThe worst I ever saw was at 11pm at night. We flew Southwest back into town. I went to get the car while everyone else got luggage.

Outside the closest doors everyone exits with their luggage there were people loading cars from four of the six lanes. At one spot I had to angle across two lanes of traffic to let a father with a toddler aged kid get out of the road. He was stuck between lanes with people not letting him cross. Crosswalks don't really work in those situations and the doors don't line up with them anyways.

Anything will be better than that.

I can’t believe they aren’t using the baggage claim at the very first door of the terminal. I picked my wife and kids up on a midnight arrival from Orlando a few weeks ago, at the same time the roadway was being repaved. There was literally ONE space to pull over by the doors, and 50 cars blocking traffic. Southwest has just been a cluster already this summer with multi-hour delays on outbound flights, and this definitely did not help. I can’t wait until there’s a bi-level roadway and common use baggage claims.

Sani wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:19 am

flyingember wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:28 pmThe worst I ever saw was at 11pm at night. We flew Southwest back into town. I went to get the car while everyone else got luggage.

Outside the closest doors everyone exits with their luggage there were people loading cars from four of the six lanes. At one spot I had to angle across two lanes of traffic to let a father with a toddler aged kid get out of the road. He was stuck between lanes with people not letting him cross. Crosswalks don't really work in those situations and the doors don't line up with them anyways.

Anything will be better than that.

I can’t believe they aren’t using the baggage claim at the very first door of the terminal. I picked my wife and kids up on a midnight arrival from Orlando a few weeks ago, at the same time the roadway was being repaved. There was literally ONE space to pull over by the doors, and 50 cars blocking traffic. Southwest has just been a cluster already this summer with multi-hour delays on outbound flights, and this definitely did not help. I can’t wait until there’s a bi-level roadway and common use baggage claims.

flyingember wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 8:42 am

Sani wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:19 am

flyingember wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:28 pmThe worst I ever saw was at 11pm at night. We flew Southwest back into town. I went to get the car while everyone else got luggage.

Outside the closest doors everyone exits with their luggage there were people loading cars from four of the six lanes. At one spot I had to angle across two lanes of traffic to let a father with a toddler aged kid get out of the road. He was stuck between lanes with people not letting him cross. Crosswalks don't really work in those situations and the doors don't line up with them anyways.

Anything will be better than that.

I can’t believe they aren’t using the baggage claim at the very first door of the terminal. I picked my wife and kids up on a midnight arrival from Orlando a few weeks ago, at the same time the roadway was being repaved. There was literally ONE space to pull over by the doors, and 50 cars blocking traffic. Southwest has just been a cluster already this summer with multi-hour delays on outbound flights, and this definitely did not help. I can’t wait until there’s a bi-level roadway and common use baggage claims.

The baggage claim systems are all disconnected underneath, so they would likely need to sort based on destination while outside the terminal to do this.

normalthings wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:06 pm Clark Weitz Clarkson filed a project plan with the city last week. (no attachments yet)

https://compasskc.kcmo.org/EnerGov_Prod ... d0f75f2b69

The DDFS was also revisited and the contact gate table yielded a demand for 37 contact gates in 2030, two more than the Exhibit K process. This DDFS is known as the 37 gate schedule. The 37 gate DDFS and gate table were made available to the design team when the project restarted in mid-February 2018.

Concurrent studies of the airside demonstrated a 39-gate Terminal on day-one, could be constructed without unduly impacting existing on-going Terminal B operations. Two alternatives for reaching the full 42-gate requirement were proposed, but would have impacts on Terminal B operations and require a small Phase 2 of construction. The trigger to implement the expansion to 42, or more gates, will depend on the future growth in demand, during the peak design hour (first morning banks), or a change in the approach to gate assignments (i.e., more sharing). However, regardless if any of these scenarios materialize in the future, the airlines will occupy the new Terminal in a single move.

Transportation modes other than cars have also been considered. Mass transit (Bus Rapid Transit, APM and light rail) have all been a part of the design and future planning of the Parking Garage. With these multi-transportation services provided, the new Parking Garage will effectively function as a Transportation Center at the new airport Terminal.