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I need to get in on this.” Among the features the airport brass are proudest of are the “all-gen der” bathrooms. They are so proud, in fact, that they placed one at the inter section of the straightaway and the B concourse. With the “gender specific” bathrooms located towards the end of the B concourse, the all-gender loo gets more natural traffic. My wife tried it. She disliked everything about it, beginning with the ideology that inspired such an expensive fix. For whatever reason, the stalls take up much more space than in a ladies’ room, and, for priva cy’s sake, the doors extend to the floor. Then, too, there were the pee-stained seats. Historically, I am told, that has not been the norm in ladies’ rooms. The (Limited) Bright Side ... Yes, of course, there are improve ments. Towards the end, the old

for the losses in time and convenience, and I have not even addressed the dif ficulty of picking someone up. Unless my plane is delayed, I cannot see myself ever eating at one of the many new restaurants or shopping at the new shops. Having paid for them, I hope someone will. The sad disconnect is that the designers did not build the new airport for the people who live here. They built it for people who don’t. Insecure about our own identity, we wanted to show visitors we could have an airport just as glitzy and inconvenient as theirs. One major puzzle, though: Given the need to impress, given all the atten tion to art and inclusivity, how is it that we ended up with an airport that looks like a parking garage? Riddle me that, Batman! The views expressed in this column, which is also published online in the Heartlander, are the writer’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of Ingram’s Magazine. Jack Cashill , Senior Editor, Editorial @ Ingrams.com

The question that more than a few will ask: Do the amenities offered at the new airport truly compensate for the overall loss of conve nience at the old one?

terminal had all the musty charm of a backwater Greyhound station. The seats are better at the new KCI, the outlets more plentiful, the snack choices more abundant, the waiting areas brighter and more spacious, and, for my purposes, the Park Air Express bus arrives at one designated, covered spot. Yet these gains do not compensate

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