This feels like a job for a Miles in Transit/Stormy Kara collab!addxb2 wrote: ↑1:34 PM - May 15Testing has begun. Who is going to be the first to ride from Lambert to Mid-America?
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Excited to ride the new extension. Anyone know its top speed?
Any idea if there's any plans for a commercial strip of some kind by the station? I thought I saw that in some plans years ago.
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I haven’t heard anything. No shortage of room though. It would be kind of cool to have an apartment building there. You could walk to the metro or to the airport for your flight. Never would happen but…
Would there be any demand for a hotel?jshank83 wrote:I haven’t heard anything. No shortage of room though. It would be kind of cool to have an apartment building there. You could walk to the metro or to the airport for your flight. Never would happen but…
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There is a good chance the intersection of 64 and highway 4, including the land north of the airport, will receive a STAR bond designation from the state of Illinois.
Local governments have until June 1st to submit to DECO a letter of intent. We’ll know the districts then and actual proposals after January 1st, 2027. Projects will be awarded by the Governor no later than June 1, 2028 and have to commence within three years.
I think Illinois has been clear enough the SAFB and Mid-America are strategically important.
STAR bonds projects will be explicitly reviewed on their ability to draw from outside of the sub-region. They will not approve generic projects that might draw from another Illinois municipality.
Local governments have until June 1st to submit to DECO a letter of intent. We’ll know the districts then and actual proposals after January 1st, 2027. Projects will be awarded by the Governor no later than June 1, 2028 and have to commence within three years.
I think Illinois has been clear enough the SAFB and Mid-America are strategically important.
STAR bonds projects will be explicitly reviewed on their ability to draw from outside of the sub-region. They will not approve generic projects that might draw from another Illinois municipality.
Not sure. There is one right across the interstate at the same exit. Fairview, ILfallon already have plenty. So I’m not sure if one on property does much, especially when it’s a vacation travel airport not really a business travel one.StlAlex wrote: ↑4:55 AM - May 17Would there be any demand for a hotel?jshank83 wrote:I haven’t heard anything. No shortage of room though. It would be kind of cool to have an apartment building there. You could walk to the metro or to the airport for your flight. Never would happen but…
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I’d like to see them find a way to up their cargo. They have tons of room for a cargo operation. Right next to the highway, not far from rail and river.addxb2 wrote: ↑5:25 AM - May 17There is a good chance the intersection of 64 and highway 4, including the land north of the airport, will receive a STAR bond designation from the state of Illinois.
Local governments have until June 1st to submit to DECO a letter of intent. We’ll know the districts then and actual proposals after January 1st, 2027. Projects will be awarded by the Governor no later than June 1, 2028 and have to commence within three years.
I think Illinois has been clear enough the SAFB and Mid-America are strategically important.
STAR bonds projects will be explicitly reviewed on their ability to draw from outside of the sub-region. They will not approve generic projects that might draw from another Illinois municipality.
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^You know, I think about intermodal every time I drive past the airport, but how much demand is there, really, to move cargo from air to rail or river or vice versa? Air to highway, sure. And likewise rail to highway. But the demands are pretty different. Air cargo tends to be quite time sensitive, right? So the only need for transshipment is likely a last mile problem. Rail and river are . . . slow. (They don't necessarily have to be, but thanks to US transportation policy they are.) And they have their own last mile problems, particularly now that the US rail infrastructure has been pruned back so far that it looks more like an oversized stump with a few glass bottles on its branches than a tree. Boeing could conceivably get parts shipped by river or rail, and those parts could eventually fly off an airport as a part of an assembled aircraft. (They do that in Seattle, at least.) But I have a hard time imagining any other use case for moving something from the railhead to the runway, and I cannot for the life of me imagine any instance that would reverse that. Is there one I'm missing? US rail is just so dreadfully slow and unresponsive. And getting worse every year. (I say as I procrastinate editing an overdue rail magazine.)
Genuinely curious.
Genuinely curious.