|
|
Article: Baggage System Sandbags Denver Airport
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- May 7, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Journal Record. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
By Sandy Shore
Associated Press
DENVER _ What has 4,000 mini-rail cars running on 21 miles of
track, guided by 100 computers, radio waves and laser scanners?
The gee-whiz baggage delivery system at Denver's new $3.2
billion airport.
Denver International Airport was supposed to open last
October, then December, then March, then May 15. Then when? No
one knows.
The opening is postponed indefinitely because the system
doesn't deliver bags. Instead, it has chewed them up, flung them
from rail cars and sent them to a nether world for luggage with
unreadable bar codes. The cars that haul bags have had crunching
pileups.
Every day the airport stays shut means a loss of $1 million.
Now, some ...