Roland Perry wrote:
In message
-septe
mber.org, at 15:54:18 on Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Recliner
remarked:

The bridged taxiway serves the North terminal. You're proposing to block
the taxiway serving the South terminal

A taxiway serving part of the South terminal

Yes, about 15 gates in the North terminal. And 15 in the South terminal.

So you're suggesting that 30 gates should be seved by a *single* taxiway

The taxi-way under the bridge, as far as I can tell from Google Earth,
serves nine gates of the North Terminal, seven at the South Terminal and
eight at the South Satellite. Plus five on the Pier 6 north face.

Yes, as I had already said, there are 30 gates in the area you want to
blight. They're all accessible via two taxiways.

The taxiway you want to block mainly serves the 15 gates on the south
terminal and the more distant gates on the North terminal; the bridged
taxiway serves some of the 15 on the North terminal. But either taxiway can
be used for any of the gates if needed, so aircraft aren't locked in if one
taxiway is blocked (which is much more likely with the North taxiway, as
it's sandwiched between the terminal and satellite, so aircraft push back
into it).

In effect, by closing the busier of the two taxiways, you'd be reducing the
effective capacity by about 24 gates. At least this slashing of capacity
should dramatically reduce the queues at Immigration!

Though, in effect, you'd be taking out most of the capacity of the North
terminal, so it might as well be closed, which no doubt would please you,
but it does seem to be a drastic solution to the terrible problem of having
to take a two minute shuttle ride!