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Dulles Airport does need a reboot, but the two dumbest parts of its $22.5 billion redesign need to get the boot first
For decades, it was screamingly obvious that Washington Dulles International Airport desperately needed three upgrades: extending Metro to there, replacing its horribly cramped C/D concourse, and retiring the giant, wheeled Mobile Lounges and Plane Mates that haul passengers around my city’s international airport.
We got the first thing done in 2022, and now Wednesday’s announcement of a $22.5 billion transformation of the airport puts the second two objectives in the measurable future.
For the most part, the new plan seems good. A new series of concourses, starting with the already-under-construction E concourse, would replace the 1985-vintage, window-deprived C/D facility that United Airlines regulars rightfully despise. And an expanded Aerotrain network would end the need to take those people movers–often crowded, always reeking slightly of diesel fuel–to or from the D concourse and from arriving international flights to IAD’s International Arrivals Building.
But two of the components of this new concept aren’t in the Master Plan that MWAA approved last year and instead seem to reflect the input of somebody who may have last flown commercial out of Dulles in the previous millennium: President Trump.
The more immediately offensive idea, seen in three of the “conceptual renderings” on MWAA’s site, would plop a blob of glass and concrete atop the iconic, Eero Saarinen-designed Main Terminal–a triumph of Brutalist architecture and one of Saarinen’s finest works anywhere.
In addition to being ugly and enormously expensive to build, that addition would add capacity where Dulles doesn’t need it most. Although check-in desks at the Main Terminal can get crowded around major holidays, that building usually serves as an efficient funnel to the security checkpoints.
And should we ever need to expand the terminal, we already know how do that without doing violence to Saarinen’s masterpiece–by building extensions of the original structure as MWAA did in 1996.
The less obvious dumb idea in the new plan isn’t mentioned in the announcements from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and IAD’s dominant carrier United Airlines but did get a plug from Trump during an Oval Office unveiling of the plan: adding a 32,000-space parking garage.
That would be almost 50 percent more than IAD’s current parking capacity: 4,508 and 3,727 spaces in the two daily garages, plus 1,852 in the terminal lot (and an unspecified number of valet spots) and 11,431 in the economy lots that require a bus ride to the terminal.
What Trump bragged would the largest parking garage in the world would also be extravagantly expensive to build. A study released in February by the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies cited a $29,000 per-space construction cost for aboveground parking in the D.C. market, so that adds up to $928 million before any premium for building next to an active airport.
That exercise in auto-addled thinking needs to go in the same circular file as the plan’s disfiguration of the Main Terminal.
Cost grounds alone should see to that: Even if United writes a very large check to MWAA, the airports authority would still be floating billions of dollars in bonds, with interest costs that passengers would wind up paying. The smaller the total price tag, the smaller the rise in the cost per enplanement (CPE) that winds up in the price of every ticket. MWAA projects a $12.77 CPE for this year, but that figure could exceed $90 under this scheme and place IAD in the same stratospheric altitude as JFK.
I am somewhat confident that these bottom-line considerations will lead MWAA and UA, who will have to deal with this project long after Trump leaves office, to do the right thing. That may be foolish optimism on my part, but I’ve already seen sanity prevail in one other way here: This week’s discussions about the future of Dulles have not featured any suggestions that we make the place yet another thing renamed for Trump.
#AeroTrain #airport #DullesAirport #EeroSaarinen #IAD #IADCD #KIAD #MetropolitanWashingtonAirportsAuthority #mobileLounges #MWAA #peopleMovers #PlaneMates #Saarinen #terminals #TrumpAirport #TrumpCult #UA #UnitedAirlines #WashingtonDullesInternationalAirport -
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Washington Dulles International Airport - Dulles, United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Dulles_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/38.944500/-77.455803#KIAD #IAD #Dulles #UnitedStates #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS
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Happy Day to my International Asexuals!
(Can someone remind me when Domestic Asexuality Day is? I dont seem to have that on my calendar 🤔)
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The #asexual spectrum (#aspec) is very diverse, and that’s great! Everyone in it experiences it differently. Some ppl (like me) do not want sex EVER. Some may tolerate or even like it, but just rarely so.
But there is ONE thing that EVERYONE in the asexual spectrum has in common: We all "violate" some arbitrary sex norm in one way or another, simply by being ourselves. No matter if asexual, graysexual, demisexual, fraysexual, …
It’s the NORMS that are false, not aspec people!
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I’m out and proud as #asexual for several years, and it has been working out for me *perfectly*. 🙂
It’s the *only* sexual-orientation word that makes sense for me. It’s really that simple.I’m neither straight, gay, nor bisexual. I’m asexual.
And I am immensely thankful to the asexual community for being so awesome (it really matters!). 👍
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🎉 It’s the International #Asexuality Day!
Why? Because it's okay to be #asexual. It’s okay to not like #sex. It’s okay to not feel sexual attraction. It’s okay to not have sex, like, ever. Or only rarely.
Society expects that every adult experiences sexual attraction and wants sex in general. But this is #BULLSHIT. 💩 Millions of asexuals disagree.
The concept of asexuality is important to be known, because our existence is a FACT.
Spread the word! 🖐️
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Heute ist #AsexualVisibilityDay und morgen (7.4.) ab 19:00 (Vortrag ab 20:00) gibt es bei uns im Projekt 31 in #Nurnberg eine Veranstaltung zu dem Thema. Es gibt einen Vortrag rund um Asexualität und Allonormativität und dazu gibt es weil Dienstag bei uns VAPCA-Tag (#Vegan #Anarchist #Punk #Cooking #Aktion) ist, auch was zu Essen. Für das Meme gibt es #Knoblauchbrot und #Kuchen.
Mehr Infos: https://projekt31.org/events/findet-statt-vortrag-zum-asexual-visibility-day-findet-statt/
#iad #tagderasexualitat #asexual #asexualitat #queer #InternationalAsexualityDay
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Hi Leute, es ist Tag der Asexualität! Die Sonne scheint, die Blümchen blühen, die Schokohasen entblättern sich verführerisch. Mehr braucht's ja nicht für einen schönen Ace Day! 😁 #iad #ace #asexualität #asexuality #InternationalAsexualityDay #queer
Mehr zum Thema findet ihr nebenan bei @aktivista https://aktivista.net/links/asexualitaet-haeufig-gestellte-fragen-fliesstext/
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Heute ist der #IAD - der Internationale Tag der Asexualität! :heart_asexual:
Asexualität ist eine sexuelle Orientierung. Asexuelle Menschen verspüren meist keine sexuelle Anziehung und/oder kein Verlangen nach sexueller Interaktion. Mancheempfinden es aus anderen Gründen als hilfreich, sich als asexuell zu bezeichnen.
Die volle Dröhnung Infos findet ihr in unseren FAQs: https://aktivista.net/links/asexualitaet-haeufig-gestellte-fragen-fliesstext/
#asexual #asexuell #internationalasexualityDay #asexualität #asexuality -
Der Internationale Tag der Asexualität findet jährlich am 6. April statt.
Asexualität bezeichnet eine sexuelle Orientierung, bei der Menschen wenig bis keine sexuelle Anziehung gegenüber anderen verspüren und/oder haben.
Asexuelle Menschen können sich romantisch zu verschiedenen Geschlechtern hingezogen fühlen.
Das "A" im Akronym LGBTQIA+ steht nicht nur für agender, sondern auch für #autigender, asexuelle und aromantische Menschen. -
#IAD #InternationalAsexualityDay #국제무성애의날 와아~~ 국제 무성애의 날이에요!! 모든 무성애 스펙트럼 여러분 화이팅입니다!! 무성애 플래그의 뜻은 아래와 같습니다 검은색 : 무성애 회색 : 무성애-유성애 사이의 경계(저네요!) 흰색 : 유성애 보라색 : 커뮤니티 라고 합니다!!
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(ground stop now lifted)
NBC4 Washington: Ground stops at all 3 major D.C.-area airports
Chemical smell was reported at an air traffic control facility for the second time in 2 weeks.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/transportation/ground-stops-dc-area-airports/4082667/
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Washington Dulles International Airport - Dulles, United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Dulles_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/38.944500/-77.455803#KIAD #IAD #Dulles #UnitedStates #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS
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How many runways can you see for Washington Dulles International airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kiad/en #washingtondullesinternationalairport #airport #washington #usa #kiad #iad #aviation #avgeek vl
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Alle, die unserem Blog folgen, wissen, dass Menschen an deutschen Unis zu Asexualität und Aromantik forschen. Vom Gesundheitswesen über Literatur bis zur Soziologie beschäftigen sich Personen mit Themen aus dem asexuellen und aromantischen Spektrum.
Einige davon haben wir gemeinsam mit ace_arovolution und Menschen von der "On Asexualities"-Konferenz eingeladen, online über ihre Arbeit zu berichten. Mehr zu Menschen, Themen und Ort findet ihr in unserem Blog: https://aktivista.net/2026/03/03/ace-und-aro-science-showcase-am-6-april-2026/#asexuality #asexualitystudies #aromanticism #aromantic #iad #internationalasexualityday #asexuell #aromantisch #asexualität #aromantik #queerstudies #lgtqia #asexuellesSpektrum #aromantischesSpektrum
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Hmm, not sure who has what problem, but this aircraft diverted back to IAD after rolling out to the runway. Looks like they're back at the private jet terminal #IAD
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