From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 10-Jun-14 18:29, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
   >> On 10-Jun-14 14:13, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>> Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
   >>>> On 10-Jun-14 12:24, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>>>> I prefer the idea of routing railroads through airports; it   
   >>>>> makes so much more sense.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Or, presumably, building airport terminals on top of   
   >>>> railroads. That makes a lot more sense to me than moving the   
   >>>> railroad, where the two are already in reasonably close   
   >>>> proximity as in this case and many others.   
   >>>   
   >>> You don't want to look at the geography? In this case, you know,   
   >>> what we've been discussing if you could be bothered to take   
   >>> context into account, it sounds like the airport campus was to   
   >>> one side of the railroad.   
   >>   
   >> ... and I already explained, when this came up a few months ago,   
   >> how to handle that case.  The rail line is fine where it is; you   
   >> can build the terminal to the side of the campus rather than   
   >> building it in the middle and then moving the rail line to go   
   >> through it.   
   >   
   > You build the terminal where the planes need to be and where all the   
   > ground access needs to be. It's absurd to state that there's never a   
   > need to rearrange existing infrastructure.   
      
   The terminal can go pretty much anywhere on the campus that you want it   
   to; putting it to one side actually means you lose less space to ground   
   transportation facilities, and if one side _already_ has ground access   
   options, such as both a railroad and a busy highway in the case of EWR,   
   that is the logical side to put it on.   
      
   >>> In the case of both of Chicago's airports, railroads ran down the   
   >>> middle.   
   >>   
   >> If so, they should have put the terminals on top of the tracks, as   
   >> was done for Oslo's airport, rather than moving the railroads to go   
   >> around the airfield.   
   >   
   > At O'Hare, the terminal is right smack in the middle, but the   
   > railroads were moved to the west.   
      
   So you're agreeing with me here?  It's hard to tell with you.   
      
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