Ok, so you know how airport runways are never cut-to-fit? They all have a little extra hanging off the ends, like they’re waiting for the airplanes to grow into them. LaGuardia Airport in New York found something great to do with the typically unused bits of the runway. They put them in a neighborhood. Just like in Sim City when there’s a red highlight to show two things can’t occupy the same space, they overlapped their essential landing lights with a residential area, and created a park where plane spotters “can” watch airliners fly overhead as often as once every two minutes. This was more easily accomplished when local residents were redesignated from “citizens” to “hobbyists” and later “a colony for the deaf”. The park itself has become a hotbed of people screaming “Hey! I’m walkin’ here!” at the sky. The Landing Lights Park project was approved after local homeowners were given an eminent domain order in which they’d either have to deal with the runway noise, or there would be a new highway construction in which the rumble strips would be installed directly on their wives.
LaGuardia Landing Lights Park (New York)
Cam Writt
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