Voters in Mexico have rejected completion of partly built new airport for Mexico City, opposing it by a 70 to 29 percent margin.
Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday he will respect the referendum, effectively ending the $13 billion project which is already about one-third built.
“The decision taken by the citizens is democratic, rational and efficient,” Lopez Obrador said. “The people decided.”
— The Washington Post
It's looking like the end of the runway for the partly built new Mexico City International Airport designed by a conglomerate comprising Foster + Partners, FR-EE (Fernando Romero Enterprise), and NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants).
While the public vote clearly disapproved of the $13 billion megaproject that's been associated with corruption and overspending, the referendum is not without criticism due to its extremely low voter turnout.
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The current airport is incredibly shitty.
I really don't understand investment in airport project. In NYC for example apparently they want to do some ridiculous project worth 13 BILLION dollars to renovate JFK. That's obvious useful, right? Meanwhile the entire city is filled with trash (literally, people just dump trash on the sidewalk because nobody seems to have thought about dumpsters), scaffolding and shit glass skyscrapers that aren't even as tall as buildings that are nearly 100 years old. Not to mention it's still probably going to take more 1 hour to get from that airport to the city center
The reason to renovate JFK has nothing to do with efficiency, access, security, etc.
It's all about the dough, lots of fingers in that pie. And if the estimate is $13b the actual cost will be double that or more.
Turkey just opened its mega Istanbul airport yesterday one of the biggest in the world. It makes sense being the largest hub between the East and the West, North and the South. They are turning the old airport into a public park. Mega hubs are the present typology for airports with a handful of firms who have the experience and know how to design them. They are more efficient and probably less complicated than upgrading existing large airports to that capacity. Their political legacy and the prestige, too, goes without saying.
a mega airport project would be interesting if they just extrude it and make a city out of it, or maybe put all the runways on the roof... or even in the middle of the building like big tunnel with views from adjacent offices. by itself its just depressing
its cool they turned the old airport into a park, but a race track would be more fun
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