$1.1 Billion tab.
Don’t worry, if you don’t use the airport, you won’t have to pay for the Sky Train.
A friend who is a pilot for a large airline told me that he has to now taxi the long way to get from the landing runway to the terminal because of the construction. ‘It is disruptive for my flying routine’, he said.
The automatic train that will shuttle passengers to the 3 terminals, the rental car facility, parking areas and the 44th Street/Washington Street light rail Station. You can begin using the train in 2013, and the final touches will be completed in 2020.
For now, workers are building the bridge for the train that is 100 feet in the air and and crosses an airport path. Wow. Now we are seeing progress.
This new train construction will be called ‘Sky Train’, aptly named after ‘Sky Harbor’. It will be the first transportation system in the U.S. that will be built over an active taxiway. It won’t affect takeoffs and landings, just the moving of airplanes.
The completed system will be 4.8 miles in length and cost $1.1 Billion. It will be paid for with bonds, and the bonds will be amortized with fees from passengers who use Sky Harbor Airport…AZ Central full article
-courtesy of Jahne Berry of AZ Central; photo courtesy of Charlie Leight, Arizona Republic
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