Monorail Instead Of Shuttle Bus At Logan Airport? Massport

BOSTON, MA — Imagine a world where you can go from the airport to home quickly and avoid the traffic. Stop laughing, the Massachusetts Port Authority told the Boston Globe Wednesday that it’s planning to spend $15 million on a study to consider hot to do just that.

Massport's plan comes out of a desire to reduce congestion and get more people to the airport. It also comes out of an earlier proposal to install a half mile long moving sidewalk to connect the Logan Airport T stop to Terminal E.

So yes, the consultant will analyze options including trams and monorails and moving sidewalks aka “automated people movers” to get people from the T to the airport terminals more efficiently.

If the project goes through it would cost around $1 billion or more, according to estimates and it would probably take a while to build, too, the Globe reports.

Hey, maybe the era of the Jetsons will soon be upon us, too.

Massport owns and operates Boston Logan International Airport and provides passengers with more than 70 nonstop domestic and 53 international destinations. In the past decade, Massport and its airline partners have invested more than $4.4 billion to build a new runway, roadways, terminals, garages and taxiways.

Massport considers Logan Airport a city within a city size wise as it sits on a 1,700 acre footprint of land.

Read the full Globe article here: Logan Airport Study Transit Options

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File Photo of a waiting area at Logan International Airport in Boston by Jenna Fisher/Patch