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Originally Posted by ILYR
From what I heard, one of the key reasons they are building a new terminal rather than expanding the old one is the infrastructure, not so much the passenger side. Apparently the are cramped at the base level where all the baggage and cargo is moved around (All those things that we don't see as passengers). Even airside, they are having problems with room.
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It is probably much easier, logistically, to build a new one. But in the past they did expand the existing terminal (to the north) and I was hoping that they could simply add more to it this time in a similar way. I could definitely see that the current terminal is cramped, though.
I just generally don't like how Winnipeg builds great things and then tosses them aside for some new dream that is usually rooted in fears of "falling behind" some other completely different city. For example, Winnipeg has a great museum that is the only Michelin Guide 3 star attraction between Toronto and the Rockies and instead of taking care of it and building it up, we just let it fall apart and throw all our resources behind some new pipe dream of the Aspers. It had what was once the British Empire's largest department store and, instead of working hard to preserve it, Winnipeg knocks it down for a mediocre arena that doesn't even fit in the lot and is comparable to what you'd find in some third-tier U.S. city. Similarly, Winnipeg has a fantastic modernist air terminal that any architectural historian would drool over, and we just junk it because we're desperate to build a new one like everyone else is building. It's more the thoughtlessness of it all that bothers me.