CHICAGO: ORD & MDW discussion

[N830MH]

Originally Posted by Kngkyle

^^ Yea I just threw it together quickly in photoshop for fun.

Take it off!!! They don't want to see that.

[Chicarchitecture]

Does anyone know when construction will begin on the new O'Hare rental car / parking facility on Mannheim Road? It seems like this should of started by now.

[BVictor1]

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/545/article/p2p-83317669/

Grow O'Hare to 10 runways? State Senate says it's solution to jet noise problem

Jon Hilkevitch
6:13 pm, April 16, 2015

The Illinois Senate unanimously approved legislation Thursday designed to mitigate jet noise around O'Hare International Airport by increasing the cap on the number of runways to 10 from eight, and prohibiting the city of Chicago from closing and demolishing any of the airport's four diagonal runways.

Two bills introduced by state Sen. John Mulroe are aimed at expanding O'Hare flight paths to reduce jet noise that has been saturating some Chicago neighborhoods and western suburbs since late 2013, when O'Hare air-traffic patterns changed. The two bills are headed to the House for consideration.

If the legislation is passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by the governor, it's still unclear whether Chicago officials would call off the scheduled closure of one diagonal runway in four months and work with the Federal Aviation Administration to disperse the more than 2,400 daily flights at O'Hare across a wider number of runways pointing in a variety of directions.

[N830MH]

Originally Posted by BVictor1

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/545/article/p2p-83317669/

Any new terminals yet?

[ardecila]

^^ Great... our boneheaded legislature will mandate a delay-prone configuration for ORD with crossing runways. That'll do wonders to keep carriers and attract new routes...

Hopefully Rauner is smart enough not to hobble O'Hare, or at least to line-item veto the provision about keeping the diagonal runways open.

[lubicon]

Stupid move. But just because they would not allow the diagonal runways to be closed doesn't mean they have to use them. So keep 'em open on paper, just never use them.

[F1 Tommy]

Originally Posted by lubicon

Stupid move. But just because they would not allow the diagonal runways to be closed doesn't mean they have to use them. So keep 'em open on paper, just never use them.

Well there are some days they can use them due to crosswinds. I think they should have kept them in the first place, but not due to noise.

[F1 Tommy]

Finnair will fly to Chicago O'Hare starting next month, launching seasonal service to its hub in Helsinki.

Beginning June 15, the airline will fly three weekly flights on the route using Airbus A330 aircraft. Finnair will operate one round-trip flight each Monday, Thursday and Saturday through Oct. 17 replacing One World partner AA on the Chicago-Helsinki seasonal route.

[N830MH]

She is at again!!! This time she went to Chicago. She's trying to get past at security checkpoints without tickets. She has been arrested for loitering & trespassing and within 10 days she got arrested again at MDW.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/05/06/serial-stowaway-marilyn-hartman-arrested-at-ohare-airport/

[BrownTown]

Originally Posted by N830MH

She is at again!!! This time she went to Chicago. She's trying to get past at security checkpoints without tickets. She has been arrested for loitering & trespassing and within 10 days she got arrested again at MDW.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/05/06/serial-stowaway-marilyn-hartman-arrested-at-ohare-airport/

Lol, she's lucky she is trying to in places that have pretty lax laws. I bet if she tried it somewhere in the south like Atlanta she would be getting serious prison time. Committing the same crime 10+ years makes one a habitual violator which is a minimum of 5 years in prison around here.

[jpIllInoIs]

People Mover extension

The City of Chicago Department of Aviation has awarded a $310 million design-build contract to Parsons to replace and expand O’Hare International Airport’s Automated Transit System (ATS) on a basis.

Parsons will manage construction of the project, which involves replacing the existing ATS between terminals, constructing a 2,000-foot extension to service the new consolidated rental car station, expanding the maintenance and storage facility, and replacing the existing 15-vehicle fleet with 36 new railcars with automated vehicle control, traction power and communications improvements. Parsons will also design the traction power, communications and trackwork while performing systems integration and commissioning work for the entire project.

[nomarandlee]

About darn time. I wonder how fast they will start working on it. Hopefully at least by the end of the summer.

I would also hope that they build the new terminal ATS station at Parking Lot F to readily incorporate an enlarged intermodal station providing quick transfers from to future downtown express trains, Metra, or Amtrak.

[k1052]

Now clear of the election, Rham has hired a new aviation commissioner.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago...c-airport-executive-aviation-commisioner

Hopefully a lot of pending projects will break loose in short order like the CONRAC, people mover (as mentioned in posts above), further stages of the OMP, and concessions contracts. Westfield has been killing it out at T5 and I'd like to see some of that action over in the rest of the airport.

[ardecila]

Interesting that they are "replacing" the existing APM. Possibly this means replacing the existing VAL technology with Mitsubishi's newer Crystal Mover technology, while leaving the major structures and stations intact. Miami just finished a new system using this technology, it's pretty sleek. I believe ATL and IAD have the same system as well.

[N830MH]

Wow! That's great news! I think O'Hare needs to get a new terminals, extension the entire terminals 5, more new parking garage, more new inline baggage screening system, terminals modernization and final, the entire terminals 1/3 will have new CBP facility, That way they won't be towed from entire terminal 5. Those aircraft will be at the same terminals only for international arrivals. I think it's right choice for everyone. They can connectivity the domestic flight. It's much easier and also, baggage claim needs to makeover.

[nergie]

Dept of Aviation just emailed me that in spring '16 Icelandair will start ORD.

[F1 Tommy]

Originally Posted by nergie

Dept of Aviation just emailed me that in spring '16 Icelandair will start ORD.

Back after 25 years. They used to have several flights a day during the summer and 1 flight daily year round using DC8-63's and 71's.

[nomarandlee]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...0150517-story.html#navtype=outfit&page=1
Rahm Emanuel faces daunting second-term challenges
May 16, 2015
........The mayor then said one of his goals is to provide express passenger rail service to O'Hare from downtown, his first mention of what certainly would be a costly project. Emanuel touted Mayor Richard J. Daley's decision to develop O'Hare as one that "fundamentally changed the landscape of Chicago for the next 50 years."

"Without O'Hare," Emanuel observed, "we could have been Cleveland."

Similarly, the mayor said he hopes his drive to create a stronger tech economy here would lay the foundation for decades of future success.

There is no 'Chicago versus suburbs, Chicago versus the rest of the state, or Chicago is the burden.' The people of Illinois know Illinois without a vibrant Chicago is a problem.
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel
As for monument building, Emanuel said his expanded Riverwalk will be completed in his second term, and opening up 26 new miles of the Chicago River for recreation, he predicts, one day will lead to highly-sought development and increased home values in the city's neighborhoods that abut the river........

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[ardecila]

^ The O'Hare Express, the idea that just won't die. The cold hard truth is that there are so many better ways to spend that money improving service to Chicago neighborhoods instead of spending it on trains for the elite.

To the extent that this goes forward, it should be structured as a PPP and completely privately-funded (probably this means a mainline railroad line using Metra stations on the Milwaukee-West or CSX Altenheim line). Unfortunately, I doubt such a thing is possible. It didn't pencil out in Toronto and probably won't pencil out in Chicago.

Add that to Metra's retarded leadership and we end up with a hugely-expensive, half-assed solution on the Blue Line that wastes valuable public money and slows down Blue Line commutes.

[Mister Uptempo]

Originally Posted by ardecila

^ The O'Hare Express, the idea that just won't die. The cold hard truth is that there are so many better ways to spend that money improving service to Chicago neighborhoods instead of spending it on trains for the elite.

To the extent that this goes forward, it should be structured as a PPP and completely privately-funded (probably this means a mainline railroad line using Metra stations on the Milwaukee-West or CSX Altenheim line). Unfortunately, I doubt such a thing is possible. It didn't pencil out in Toronto and probably won't pencil out in Chicago.

Add that to Metra's retarded leadership and we end up with a hugely-expensive, half-assed solution on the Blue Line that wastes valuable public money and slows down Blue Line commutes.

On the same subject from the Chicago Sun-Times-

Rahm's big plans for second term might include cleaning house at Board of Ed.
Posted: 05/16/2015, 08:24am | Fran Spielman

-SNIP-

Q: You have big plans for O’Hare.

A: Concessions, routes, transportation. And the biggest piece, the last piece, is negotiations with the carriers as it relates to expansion, which is essential to the city.

Q: What about concessions?

A: There’s a lesson to be learned by what I did at the international terminal. Today, O’Hare has the single best international terminal in the United States . . . I want the domestic terminals, when we do the concessions, to look and feel like the international so people have an experience. I want them to be like Chicago so the 60 million people coming in and out say, “That’s Chicago.” Look at Rick Bayless in there, and you have a feeling of Chicago. Can we bring some of the culinary experiences that people have in the city to O’Hare? A lot of our top chefs want to have something there.

Q: Routes?

A: We’re well-positioned in Europe. We’re well-positioned in North America. We’re well-positioned in Asia. [But] the fastest-growing market in Latin America, we’re not. I want them to start working on the Latin-American routes.

Q: What about high-speed rail from downtown to O’Hare?

A: An express service from the city to the airport would be a game-changer to the economics of the overall region but most importantly for Chicago . . . I want to get that eventually started.

Q: Do you do that from that expensive hole in the ground at Block 37? Or are there other ways?

A: There’s one other way. That’s [Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans’] job to explore some ideas kicking around in how to do it.