Logan Airport Capital Projects

[Stlin]

While the October board slides are already out, there's nothing surprising in them. That said, the apparent next big upcoming project at Logan is a major $300M reconfiguration of the behind-the-scenes North Service Area - this mess of vehicles and service buildings. Primarily, they'll be putting a significant portion of those vehicles in a new building, and demolishing several existing structures, and while not specifically called out in the renders, they'll additionally be building a seawall/coastal flooding berm along the waterfront, and retrofitting the bus depot to accommodate MassPort BEBs.

Further, it's not mentioned anywhere in the bid docs, but it appears that the long term plan for the area vacated is to become leasable ramp space - and if I'm reading the concept plan correctly, potentially a new FBO. Lastly, given that the entire area is getting rebuilt, I'm impressed by the tenacity of the vestigial Neptune Road - given its occupying increasingly valuable real estate to the point where an employee parking deck is in the cards, I'd have assumed it get subsumed, but I suppose it's still a possibility as this moves forward.

 

[737900er]

While the October board slides are already out, there's nothing surprising in them. That said, the apparent next big upcoming project at Logan is a major $300M reconfiguration of the behind-the-scenes North Service Area - this mess of vehicles and service buildings. Primarily, they'll be putting a significant portion of those vehicles in a new building, and demolishing several existing structures, and while not specifically called out in the renders, they'll additionally be building a seawall/coastal flooding berm along the waterfront, and retrofitting the bus depot to accommodate MassPort BEBs.

Further, it's not mentioned anywhere in the bid docs, but it appears that the long term plan for the area vacated is to become leasable ramp space - and if I'm reading the concept plan correctly, potentially a new FBO. Lastly, given that the entire area is getting rebuilt, I'm impressed by the tenacity of the vestigial Neptune Road - given its occupying increasingly valuable real estate to the point where an employee parking deck is in the cards, I'd have assumed it get subsumed, but I suppose it's still a possibility as this moves forward.

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I could also see UPS getting moved over there to create room for more Terminal E expansion

 

[SouthEnder88]

The last few months of meeting presentations have also indicated a return to looking at how to reduce car traffic flow into/out of Logan. They don't say it explicitly, but I'm curious if this is a giant wind-up to the return of the people mover that was initially moving ahead right before the pandemic?

 

[Java King]

The last few months of meeting presentations have also indicated a return to looking at how to reduce car traffic flow into/out of Logan. They don't say it explicitly, but I'm curious if this is a giant wind-up to the return of the people mover that was initially moving ahead right before the pandemic?

On this regard, I'm surprised the Hingham-Logan ferry schedule is so bad. It's such a fantastic way to and from the airport. I flew back from Seattle this past Sunday, and there seemed to be no weekend service at ALL! I took the boat to Logan on Monday, and it was so fast and easy. (See my skyline photos in the Boston skyline thread.) I sure wish the ferry schedule was more flexible and often. It's such an awesome way to reduce vehicle traffic.

 

[sneijder]

The last few months of meeting presentations have also indicated a return to looking at how to reduce car traffic flow into/out of Logan. They don't say it explicitly, but I'm curious if this is a giant wind-up to the return of the people mover that was initially moving ahead right before the pandemic?

There needs to be some disincentive to personal car pickups/dropoffs. They've added $5 airport fees to ubers and made them drop off in central garage, but for some reason if someone's picking you up they can drive right up to the terminal curbside for free and clog all the roadways up. Add more Logan expresses (a bus to the end of every T line + kendall square + harvard square + JFK umass) every 30 minutes all day. Constantly circulating bus to the blue line that doesn't get stuck in traffic. This isn't that hard.

 

[RandomWalk]

I remain amused at the way that Neptune Rd continues to linger on as a ghost of the old neighborhood.

 

[mass88]

It's too bad they cannot find another spot for the economy lot and State Police barracks. You could probably park 3-4 wide bodies in its space, or 5-6 narrow bodies.

 

[Equilibria]

While the October board slides are already out, there's nothing surprising in them. That said, the apparent next big upcoming project at Logan is a major $300M reconfiguration of the behind-the-scenes North Service Area - this mess of vehicles and service buildings. Primarily, they'll be putting a significant portion of those vehicles in a new building, and demolishing several existing structures, and while not specifically called out in the renders, they'll additionally be building a seawall/coastal flooding berm along the waterfront, and retrofitting the bus depot to accommodate MassPort BEBs.

Further, it's not mentioned anywhere in the bid docs, but it appears that the long term plan for the area vacated is to become leasable ramp space - and if I'm reading the concept plan correctly, potentially a new FBO. Lastly, given that the entire area is getting rebuilt, I'm impressed by the tenacity of the vestigial Neptune Road - given its occupying increasingly valuable real estate to the point where an employee parking deck is in the cards, I'd have assumed it get subsumed, but I suppose it's still a possibility as this moves forward.

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And of course they'll get this bus garage done before the MBTA even goes vertical on a single one...