KCI task force is poised to recommend airport terminal layout
Lynn Horsley
Kansas City Star
April 20, 2014
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/20...recommend.html
"Leaders of the KCI citizens task force say that despite the difficulties, they think they can soon forge a consensus on whether to renovate the airport’s terminals or build a new one.
That decision is intended to guide one of the Kansas City area’s most important public building projects of the next decade.
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The three choices that Frasca and Associates aviation consultants identified for the task force:
• Major expansion on the individual horseshoe terminals, with additional passenger screening, new parking facilities and roadway reconfigurations, at a rough cost of more than $700 million. Shuttle buses would still connect the terminals.
• A new central passenger screening area connecting the existing terminals, which would be repurposed as secure passenger concourses, plus new parking and roadway configurations, at a rough cost of more than $700 million. Some kind of moveable walkway might be required through the concourses.
• A new single terminal, plus new parking and other features, at a rough cost of $800 million to $1.2 billion.
Koster said some details emerged very recently and haven’t been thoroughly discussed. And he still thought the group should consider a fourth option of baseline repairs to the three terminals, which the Aviation Department has roughly estimated at $365 million to $460 million."