West - Seattle - smartest city in the country and 2 months to fix an escalator at Seatac?

Does anyone know why exactly the escalator to the parking garage near carousel 14 is taking 3 months to fix. It's a big pita to have to walk around or to wait forever forthe escalator.

Boeing could have built something like 6 737's I this time. What's taking so long?

Does anyone know why exactly the escalator to the parking garage near carousel 14 is taking 3 months to fix. It's a big pita to have to walk around or to wait forever forthe escalator.

Boeing could have built something like 6 737's I this time. What's taking so long?

Actually at Boeing's current rate of production they are building 70 737's in two months.
http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2056


As for the escalator replacement (not repair):
The escalator replacement project at Sea-Tac Airport is now in the second phase. The Port of Seattle advises travelers that their normal routes to and from the parking garage and the main terminal may be affected. Watch for signs and personnel to direct you to alternate routes.

The installation of new escalators at sky bridges 2 and 4 is complete. Both sky bridges are open and fully functional to/from the ticketing and bag claim levels in the terminal.
The escalators at sky bridge 5 are now closed and on December 8, the escalators at sky bridge 3 will close. Both sky bridges will remain open but passengers will need to use elevators and stairs rather than escalators.
This phase of the project is scheduled to be completed in late March 2012.
Work on replacing the first of three escalators leading from the train station to the mezzanine in the airport’s south satellite is scheduled to start in mid-December. A new escalator also will be installed at this location.

During the course of this two-year project, which began in August, the port will replace 42 escalators through the airport and install two new ones in the south satellite. Learn more about the project.
http://www.portseattle.org/Sea-Tac/Traveler-Updates/Pages/default.aspx
More info here:
http://www.portseattle.org/Business/Construction-Projects/Airport-Projects/Pages/Airport-Escalator-Project.aspx

the elevator closest to the USO has been broken for something like 4 years.

I imagine the Port commissioners (all of them) are discussing the matter with the manufacturer in Germany.

the elevator closest to the USO has been broken for something like 4 years. The money that should have been used to fix it was spent on those big plaster-white pipe segments ("art") lying around the A concourse; also the big mechanical / moving sculpture nearby that has been broken and immobile for almost as long.

I am sure the Port commissioners are off discussing repair strategies with vendors in St. Tropez, Virgin Gorda and the Maldives.

Where do you get that Seattle is the smartest city? Don't confuse "city with highest concentration of useless degrees" and "smartest city".

Exhibit A: 27 year old serving coffee for $11 with a Master's in 14th Century French Lit. Educated, sure. Smart.....not so much.

FWIW at the Las Vegas airport there were two escalators in the D gates that were out of service for at least 6 months at one point. This has nothing to do with smart or dumb cities. It has to do with corrupt city managers that give service contracts to their friends who then take 6 months to fix an escalator, work that should be done in 2 days.

Does anyone know why exactly the escalator to the parking garage near carousel 14 is taking 3 months to fix. It's a big pita to have to walk around or to wait forever forthe escalator.

Boeing could have built something like 6 737's I this time. What's taking so long?

The elevator repair is supervised by the great-grandchildren of the workers who spent almost 40 years rebuilding Interstate 90 between DT SEA and the summit of Snoqualmie Pass. They only know one speed....go so damn slow that your pension benefit exceeds your annual salary...
There is no such thing as leadership amongst the Port Commissioners. They are the best paid, least supervised, most wretched oversight elected folks in the United States.
And we won't even discuss the problems likely to pop up in their unfunded waterfront retaining wall project that coincides with the Viaduct replacement in DT SEA.

Where do you get that Seattle is the smartest city? Don't confuse "city with highest concentration of useless degrees" and "smartest city".

Exhibit A: 27 year old serving coffee for $11 with a Master's in 14th Century French Lit. Educated, sure. Smart.....not so much.

FWIW at the Las Vegas airport there were two escalators in the D gates that were out of service for at least 6 months at one point. This has nothing to do with smart or dumb cities. It has to do with corrupt city managers that give service contracts to their friends who then take 6 months to fix an escalator, work that should be done in 2 days.

Take your whining to the miscellaneous forum. Especially given that you're too lazy to bother looking anything up.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13278190/ns/business-local_business/t/smartest-city-us-its-seattle/#.Tv4PItQ7U1I

Incidentally, where do you think the brains of the computer that you're using were designed? Bought anything online lately? Used a Kindle? There's plenty of people both with advanced engineering degrees in the city. There's also plenty of use for people with Arts degrees in the modern business setting. I know plenty of them that probably make more than you do.

Thanks for the answer JPat. That clarifies things a lot.

Incidentally, where do you think the brains of the computer that you're using were designed? Bought anything online lately? Used a Kindle? There's plenty of people both with advanced engineering degrees in the city. There's also plenty of use for people with Arts degrees in the modern business setting. I know plenty of them that probably make more than you do.

Yeah, whatever. It doesn't make Seattle (or Washington) any better at balancing its budget, setting up a stable tax base, urban planning, law enforcement, running elections, administering public works projects, or maintaining Port facilities. We're pathetically, categorically incompetent on every last one of those counts. A bunch of smart people welded together to produce an idiotic community.

Take your whining to the miscellaneous forum. Especially given that you're too lazy to bother looking anything up.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13278190/ns/business-local_business/t/smartest-city-us-its-seattle/#.Tv4PItQ7U1I

Incidentally, where do you think the brains of the computer that you're using were designed? Bought anything online lately? Used a Kindle? There's plenty of people both with advanced engineering degrees in the city. There's also plenty of use for people with Arts degrees in the modern business setting. I know plenty of them that probably make more than you do.

Thanks for the answer JPat. That clarifies things a lot.

Wow, talk about sensitive. Dude, learn to take a joke.

And did you actually read the article? Seattle is #1 by % of people with degrees. Which was my point. Having a degree != "smart" when that degree leads to a 27 year old making $11 an hour serving coffee. And I have no hard facts but from having been to Seattle regularly over the past 10 years I can say the city has to be in the top 5 when it comes to that.

You have no idea what I make. But you assume you a) do know me and b) you make more than me. Your attitude is the perfect Seattle Condescending attitude. Well done playing to the stereotype perfectly.

...from having been to Seattle regularly over the past 10 years I can say the city has to be in the top 5 when it comes to that.

Certainly in the top five when it comes to sneering, passive-aggressive, brittle condescension to cultural and political outliers. Not that that has anything to do with a broken escalator.

However we're close to the top in the realms of overstatement and hyperbole.