Originally published at: Miami-Dade Weighs New Airport
Officials study expansion options as long-term demand projections rise.
This will be interesting to see what Dade county comes up with. Other than building in the swamp, there is no land open enough to build a new airport. NIMBY’s would probably stop any attempt at eminent domain to gain land. The other options to expand existing fields might work at Homestead, but who wants to drive that distance to Miami?
I helped build New Tamiami airport in exchange for my first flying lessons back when it was a long drive from Dadeland out on a wilderness Prairie. It is now surrounded by industrial, commercial, and high density housing. Most affordable option for passenger service expansion is former Homestead AFB and extend the high speed brightline and/or monorail to it.
I admit total ignorance of building large capital projects, but twenty years to completion? We went from barely getting a small satellite into orbit to the moon in eleven years. does it really take twenty years to build an airport?
Waldom, there are many differences, beginning with the need to buy all those square miles of land. Whatever you and I dislike about how major project works projects are sited, you’d dislike it a lot more if a government agency had the authority to pick a spot without the public input process.