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....Also first time I've given a really good look at that render but it looks like they plan to use all glass jetways and even all glass line-up areas for the jumbos in the new extension. That should make a nice first impression for those arriving from overseas to Chicago for the first time. A little thing to make a first good impression if they follow the render. |
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Glass jetways were prohibited until 2013 by fire code (NFPA 415 for the nerds like me). It wasn't necessarily a cost issue keeping them out of American airports.
Supposedly the cost is not significantly more than traditional steel designs, Wichita only found a 1.5% cost premium for glass: https://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/...tways-for.html |
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YMMV of course, that number seems suspiciously low but it looks like the cost premium is not huge in any case. Apparently jetways have a lot of the same market dynamics as train rolling stock with Buy America requirements, a Chinese lowball competitor, etc.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pol...rt-jets-320491 |
Surprised this hasn't been posted yet. If this actually comes to fruition this would likely cut into a decent market portion of any future premium express train from downtown to O'hare. Would be interesting to see these suckers zooming overhead along the Kennedy corridor.
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^ Lets not kid ourselves, a premier express train to OHare just ain't gonna happen.
Things like the above are clearly going to become more common and a preferred option for a lot of travelers |
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Neve-the-less, how do they plan to fly small helicopters within O'Hare no fly flight paths frequently enough to make the business profitable. Is that air space not too busy already with long range commercial flights?:???: |
Interesting info on why some airports only have people movers instead of direct public transportation links.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3v5...Z9VcNHPir0-Duw |
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At any rate this is probably years off but hopefully with the goal of 15 minute Metra service to OHare + a new Fulton Market station they can lock in the parameters for the project and start the process of begging for money. |
O'Hare Terminal 5 Expansion
Here's an image I stumbled across online that someone took around 2 months ago when departing O'Hare of the Terminal 5 Expansion. Anybody know when this will be completed, and/or have any recent pictures of the expansion?
https://instagram.flwo4-1.fna.fbcdn....3b&oe=606A31C3 |
I'm not working on it, but my company is part of the design team for the main, Terminal 2 expansion and all of that associated work; I asked a colleague who is working on the project about time frame, and he said the City would like to issue final bid drawings this fall. Our firm started working on preliminary design drawings with the greater team in July of 2019, I believe, but given how massive the O'hare's expansion project is, 2+ years to create fully developed construction drawings is..about right..
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New 'smart windows' used by Netflix and Google are coming to O'Hare Airport
It seems like new "smart windows" using AI will be installed in the ORD Terminal 5 expansion. :cool: https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/...e-airport.html |
Serial stowaway got arrested again. She is at it again! She was not supposed to be there. This time she went to O'Hare airport today. She didn't listen to the judges. I am big pissed with her again!
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/03...wUD6yxsbZoOIIw |
That lady is amazing. We should all just be glad she's not sneaking into the pilots seat.
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Also unrelated but does anyone have any thoughts about how O'Hare might look whenever the mythical 'western terminal' is built? It's predicated with completion of the Tollway's EOWA project which will connect 390 to the 90 and 294 via the new 490 beltway. That construction should all be done in 5-6 years and the terminal will sit just east of where Thorndale now intersects with York road. The Tollway has a drawing of all their ramps at that future 390 interchange and it labels a projected west terminal in that drawing too. There would appear to be less impediment to build a connection from a western terminal to the main airport since 14R/32L is now gone. But how exactly would a connection be built? A long people mover to the far west satellite terminal at T1 or the global terminal? Extension of the ATS over or under T1 to the west terminal? O'Hare's layout just isn't easily conducive for easily identifiable connection. |
Western access requires an underground people mover, but based on the phasing of new terminals I don't think they will add a people mover until the 2nd satellite terminal opens, which might not be until the mid 2030s.
T2 is landside and the 1st satellite will be directly connected to T1's remote concourse. You don't really need the people mover until the 2nd satellite comes online. At that point I imagine they would just continue digging the tunnel to the west and build a small, temporary check-in facility (pickup/dropoffs only, no checked bags). Basically just a few electronic kiosks for each airline and then a security screening. |
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