Why is the Orlando Airport so pedestrian unfriendly? - Did Dicksney rig the Airport.

[Alex Hogendorp]

I've been to the Orlando airport before and I noticed how unfriendly it is to pedestrians, no sidewalks lead out of airport so you have to take public transportation or a car there and out. Why is that. And before you asked, Yes. I've been there for the shitty Disney parks but that was over a decade ago but I wonder if these parks have anything to do with a structure of the airport.

Also. SeaWorld Orland and Universal is better.

 

[eatler]

Detroits the same way so its just the wonders of urban planning. Most of these citys cant predict where things are heading so they just build things wherever.

 

[XANA]

You're not supposed to walk. You're supposed to use the local crocodiles as transportation.

(I am struggling to think of a single large American airport where you can just walk up to it, since they usually split levels for arrivals/departures and restrict them to motor vehicles)

 

[sasazuka]

Dorval Airport (now, officially, Montreal Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport) was pretty much the same way in the 1990s; if you were walking from the Dorval commuter train station and bus terminus, which I did at least once, you had to cross Cardinal Avenue and then basically walk about a kilometre up grass medians alongside various long term parking lots, crossing busy access roads without traffic signals a couple of times, with no sidewalks until you got close to the terminal.

Granted, I did it in summer, where walking on grass isn't really a problem. I can't imagine what it would have been like to do it in winter. I think it's much easier to get to the airport without a car today, with more frequent public transit connections direct to the terminal plus the soon-to-open airport branch of the R.E.M. light rail system.

 

[MG-34]

It's an American thing. Most airports don't have a real way to walk away from them, then again in my travels most European and Asian airports don't have the means for you to walk away from it. In fact I can only remember the International Airport in Vilnius being one where you can just walk away from it.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

It's an American thing. Most airports don't have a real way to walk away from them, then again in my travels most European and Asian airports don't have the means for you to walk away from it. In fact I can only remember the International Airport in Vilnius being one where you can just walk away from it.

There is a reason for that, no one wants to live over a flyover zone. When they finally finished the Berlin-Brandenburg airport (which is a whole fucking lolcow story of how it was built), it is actually massively far outside of Berlin. I was surprised myself when going from the heart of Berlin to it took nearly 40 minutes in no traffic, etc.

 

[MG-34]

(which is a whole fucking lolcow story of how it was built)

I have never heard of a good story involving Germany and infrastructure. I never visited Berlin but Frankfurt Airport was a fucking nightmare to fly in and out of. Though I remember there were a few enclaves of cheap hotels, stores and restaurants in the immediate area for people to use when they are just transiting for a couple days. I never saw that in the US.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I have never heard of a good story involving Germany and infrastructure. I never visited Berlin but Frankfurt Airport was a fucking nightmare to fly in and out of. Though I remember there were a few enclaves of cheap hotels, stores and restaurants in the immediate area for people to use when they are just transiting for a couple days. I never saw that in the US.

It was just a clusterfuck of problems and corruption. In 2008 and 2009 both me and my ex were watching ARD Tagesschau on the regular and they were talking about building this thing. I found out it was only finished like two or three years ago.