For years (okay, decades) one of my favorite airport attractions has been the rubberized moving walkway between terminals A and C at DFW. While all modern people-movers are cold impersonal metal, this one is a lively rubberized surface.

It should be against the law to merely _stand_ on a walkway of this magnificence. By walking briskly, you get the unparalleled experience of the wind in your face and a bounce your step. It was amazing.

Does anyone know what they're planning to do to our beloved rubberized moving walkway? I first noticed that it was cordoned off in early May. Again in mid-May, and again today, it's out of service. It's been out for the entire month of May.

Please tell me they're merely re-doing the rubberized walkway and that they are NOT replacing it with a new-fangled metal one?

It certainly looked non-functional when we were there this past weekend. We don't use the walkway, rather walking down the center of the hallway, but they did look nice, when operating

Cheers.

Is this similar to the one at MIA when going from the terminal to the car rental center? Has kind of a space-walk feel? If so, am also a big fan.

Yes, and I can't stand when people take up the entire belt with there over personage and rubbish they are traveling with. When time allows I always walk between the terminals at DFW.

I had a 4 hour layover the other day, I walked the entire airport (every gate) in 1hr 45 mins.

Put my bags in a locker in AC.

^ We had about 3 hours recently, left the bags in the AC luggage room in A (where our outbound was going to be) and strolled over to D for dinner. Very nice way to spend an overly-long layover.

Cheers.

I grew up in Dallas and took a ton of trips thru DFW. I can tell you what is completley awesome if you can pull it off - I could when I was like 10 or 12 - is to run on those bouncy people movers. You feel like an olympic 200m champ, like you are running like the Bionic Man.

Oh, woe are us (to agree with woe is me, not the grammar book) should the horizontal escalator go away....

I must admit to having become a lazy creature of convenience, choosing to (if not to soar above the clouds) to soar above the crowds via SkyLink (which even should you board the wrong train will get you from A to C the long way around).

I suppose it's familiarity, but for me DFW remains among the easiest of large airports around and about which to navigate, the one in which, even when you err, you can still get there.

Since they got the nice SkyLink running, I haven't had to use that A-C connector, or even the B to A connector. But I do remember how it was. It was neat.

But to be honest, I don't miss it. SkyLink is a massive improvement in inter (and even Intra) terminal transit at DFW.

This is probably unrelated, but I noticed when riding the Skytrain from C to A last week that there is a new elevated structure being built connecting the 2 terminals.

It looks like it will be an enclosed bridge with periodic columns and is on the flightline side of the existing building. It was not very wide, perhaps 12 feet, so it wouldn't seem to be a replacement for the existing connector walkway. Not being familiar with the baggage handling areas for DFW, was thinking it could be a baggage conveyor tunnel as well.