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Old Feb 19, 2006, 2:35 am
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Originally Posted by Pismocrab
Only 7 minutes? It feels like a half hour. That's the one, serious, design flaw in that whole place IMO. Even if you do walk on the peoplemovers, it takes forever. That, and T9 has to have the slowest moving escalators anywhere on the planet. And no, the elevators aren't any faster - I've tried it. Love the wide open spaces and new car smell, but I'd trade it all for the old walking distance.
Well I still walk at a NY pace

I have fixed feelings about the decore of the new terminal. It's very... sparse and very... souless. Like it tries to be HKG, but not.
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