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Trains are impractical and the tracks take up so much space (i.redd.it)

submitted 7 months ago by happybadger@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

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San Francisco population: 815,201

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_International_Airport

"The 52.4 square miles (136 km2; 33,500 acres) of land occupied by the airport is more than one and a half times the size of Manhattan (33.6 square miles or 87 square kilometres). DIA is larger in land area (excluding water) than the US cities of Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California. DIA occupies the largest amount of commercial airport land area in North America, by a great extent."

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[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago

the best part of denver international airport is that it's like an hour ride to get into denver once you get there. so even once you get there, you get to start experiencing car hell just to get to any actual city.

[-] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

theres a train line at least

but its still a long ride and like $10

[-] SeducingCamel@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

Don't worry the mcmansion suburbs have been rapidly approaching the airport

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago

There's almost nothing on that land. It's a huge, flat, undeveloped area thirty miles outside Denver. The city border snakes all the way out there along the cooridor used by the light rail. They very specifically put it way outside the city for whatever reason, probably noise pollution and expansion.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

It's huge, flat, and undeveloped but it's also right next to a nature preserve and in a state with a severe housing crisis.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

The housing crisis is 100 nimby shitheads afaik. The whole state is either impassible mountains or flass flat wasteland, the pressures on housing are legal and water afaik. Density? Over my dead body!

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Isn't there also a giant landfill out there, or am I thinking a different area? Been a bit since I've been. I just remember the people driving us were very proud of the landfill and can't remember if that was when we were heading out to the airport or somewhere else

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

They put it way outside the city because the previous airport at Stapleton (named after a klansman btw) was so close the city grew around it over time

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They very specifically put it way outside the city for whatever reason, probably noise pollution and expansion

they put it there because the old mayor's buddies owned the land. all the getting the 'noise away from people' got cancelled out by the new developments around the place for its workers and such

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

There's also a secret deep underground military base (dumb) underneath it that the illuminati uses.

[-] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

At least the giant evil horse sculpture outside DIA killed the doofus who designed it.

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

Got stuck there overnight once many years ago. Still kinda wish I had died retroactively before it happened, some scars just don't heal.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

some years ago i did some travel around out west where i flew into one city, did a half assed loop, and then flew out of denver after crashing on a friend's couch for a few days. he took me to the train downtown where i could catch the rail line out to the airport. it's $10 and takes 40 goddamn minutes to get out there.

i then you walk in and immediately hit the switch back snaking security line from absolute hell. easily 500 people in front of me in line, and i had already checked in got my mobile boarding pass. some poor bastards had to go to a fuckin' kiosk and wait in line before they could get in the big line. surreal experience, the volume of people shuffling with all their shit.

[-] utopologist@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

The security line at DIA is always fucking unreal. It's the only airport I've been at that's ever consistently that bad and I can't figure out why

[-] eighthaccount@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

i was just last week ranting about how horrible the denver airport is oh how i loathe it so much. plane travel is already terrible but to have to follow it up with navigating this demonic labyrinth makes me completely believe all the rumors about the airport being a shrine to Satan

[-] davel@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

And somehow San Francisco still has ten golf courses wasting precious water and urban space.

[-] LaForgeRayBans@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

Are we having the airplane struggle secession? same-picture ohmygoditshappening, everyone get your soylent we are going to see so many removed in this shit!