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E M Richards <booter@well.com> wrote:
>Jim Heck  <jim@comms2.calstate.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Denver shut down over last weekend.  
>
>The horrifying part of it is that there was nothing wrong with
>the Denver airport at all. It was the airport's perception of
>the roads near Denver. Since they decided that people could not
>get to or from the airport, they would shut the airport down,
>not thinking or caring about the people who use Denver as a 
>hop between destinations.

Peeve: DIA.  Jesus Christ missing the Resurrection because of a fouled-up
       connection, was there ever such a public clusterfuck of a mismanaged
       aerodrome *ever* in the history of mankind?  First of all, the place
       is a year late opening because United stomped its widdle feet and
       insisted that baggage be thrown by slingshot^W"Automated Handling
       Systems" which eventually had to be scrapped after $250,000,000.
       Did United or BAE, the designer of this monument to engineering
       hubris, pay a penny?  Did they fuck.  The airport was placed dozens
       of miles away from major urban areas to avoid noise problems, but
       lo and behold the runways are exactly in line with some small towns
       whose citizens are not exactly thrilled with the idea of living on
       the climb out path, so now the traffic has to go through noise 
       abatement procedures just like they did at Stapleton.  I shouldn't
       mention runways that are just slightly too close together for
       simultaneous landings a la O'Hare, because you probably don't want
       to know about your tax dollars going to uselessly pave farmland.
       The final topping to this rancid dessert of peeves has to be the
       local microclimate: one can have overcast conditions in the whole
       Denver area, but only on the airport road and the airport itself will
       there be ground fog, and that thick enough to cut with a chainsaw.  

No bloody surprise the passenger terminal is under large tents: DIA was 
conceived and built by enough clowns for a truly stupendous circus.


Francois.