A long-awaited project to overhaul a terminal at La Guardia Airport has been further delayed as its operator weighs contest submissions to redesign it and other aviation facilities.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the aging airport, won’t select a development team to remake its Central Terminal Building—Terminal B to travelers—while it awaits the outcome of a broader design competition for New York airports, said John Degnan, the authority’s chairman.
“We simply decided it would be prudent to see what the conceptual design is before proceeding with the process,” Mr. Degnan said in an interview.
That a construction project is being delayed by a redesign competition is the latest bump in the Port Authority’s multiyear effort to replace the terminal, which was built in 1964.
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From Prospect Park Quiet Skies
"The FAA and Port Authority of New York/New Jersey are destroying the environment and the health of New York & New Jersey neighborhoods one aircraft at a time.
There is no way to really revamp an antiquated air field. It is already bursting at the seams beyond saving, like trying to stuff ten pounds of , what ever, into a five pound sack.
That Quiet Skies group is a joke. Everyone has been too quiet for too damn long concerning noise and health hazards. Window dressing will not improve things, only hide faults.
It's time to end articles on airport makeovers. One way or another airports (like sewer and street repairs/paving) will need to be done always and forever into the future. Continuous planning and construction are the norm at these heavily used 24/7 facilities.
i've been under these planes when they fly over 108st in Forest Hills/Rego Park. They aren't very loud. not like 30 years ago.
i live pretty close under one of the take off routes in Forest Hills and it's not very loud either
'i've been under these planes when they fly over 108st in Forest Hills/Rego Park. They aren't very loud. not like 30 years ago.
i live pretty close under one of the take off routes in Forest Hills and it's not very loud either'
that is you being hard of hearing you old fossil!
At times my fillings vibrate with a plane going overhead in Woodside.
LGA is a poor excuse for and airport. The $Billion, yes $billion control tower that was completed 7 years ago is already out of date and will need to be upgraded soon!
PANY/NJ needs to be dismantled. They can't get this sort of project moving, and yet things like the Bayonne Bridge and NJ Skyway rip through in no time flat.
Anon #5: Come to Flushing and then tell us that the planes aren't very loud.
hahahahaha and on and on it goes
I guess we will just have to continue landing in Tegucigalpa for a while longer. Well, maybe their airport is better.
Queens Crap readers please read & sign the petition posted on this site on the right side.
(SHHHH Quieter skies over Queeens)
Anonymous #5 must be hard of hearing or is a troll.
Noise and air pollution are a real threat to people's health and well being.
I would think that the weather has a lot to do with the noise. When there's a low cloud cover, the planes' motors rumble off the cloud ceiling and reverberate downward. On a clear day, the noise is less noticeable.
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