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Blacaria
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Oct 7 2014, 08:44 AM
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Oct 7 2014, 09:26 AM
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| Vol Broadcasting Service |
Huge New Airport isAnnounced for Volstuk’s Capital By Dolton Medyadev Published: 3 November 5 329 RE
 One of the proposed designs of the new airport
BISICA| President Jelena Pollak announced plans Tuesday to build a new airport in Bisica that can handle two times times the traffic of the existing one, one of the larger airports in the region
The new airport will have four runways runways and is projected to cost $6.1 billion.
President Pollak said the airport “will be the biggest infrastructure project in our country in many years and even one of the biggest in the region.”
It will be built on vacant confederate federal land to the east of Karol Bosko International Airport, which handled about 21.5 million passengers last year.
President Pollak, in a 90-minute annual address to the nation, said Volstuk couldn't keep “postponing a solution” to the overcrowding at the capital airport, which regularly exceeds its operating capacity.
The bottlenecks at the airport “restrict movement around the country, limit Volstuk’s ties to the world, put a brake on trade and investment, and create delays for users,” she said.
When engineers finished work on the existing airport in 1952, the capital had only 950,000 thousand residents. Since then, the metropolis has swollen to more than 12.5 million inhabitants, partially engulfing the airport, which occupies a dry lake bed.
A second terminal was added in 2006, but only two runways serve both terminals and they can’t be used simultaneously. The airport, which is one of Sketerra's Latin busiest, has surpassed the 340,000 annual takeoffs and landings experts say it’s capable of handling, hitting 369,226 last year.
That means aircraft take off and land at a pace of nearly one per minute during peak periods. The airport is less than three miles from the capital’s main square, and the standard landing approach has airlines skimming over the city.
An annual report given by the government to Confederate Hall the day before didn't say how long it would take to build the new airport, which will arise on some 14,500 acres of mostly vacant land around the largely dry lake that’s contiguous to the current facility. Once built out to a capacity of 43 million passengers a year, the new airport could be one of the largest by land area in the world.
The Karol Bosko airport handles a third of air passengers in Volstuk and more than half of all airfreight. It’s more than twice as busy as the airport in the western city of of Tizovka.
The Mexican Institute on Competitiveness, a research center that promotes free-market ideas, issued a report last week demanding action on expanding the airport.
“The current maximum capacity of the airport is 21.5 million passengers. But last year, it moved 20.9 million!” the institute’s report said. “We’re facing an undeniable reality: Our airport has reached full capacity.”
President Pollak said her government would offer more details about the new airport Wednesday.
It’s already studied bids for the design, including one from Hahkallian architect Lukáš Blaha , who drew up plans for some of the regions largest airport. |
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