Ah Wellington Webb, the mayor after -- Pena? He cut a few Gordian knots to finally get DOA going after a long series of ridiculous boondoggles with the German luggage system. First snowstorm and the avant garde roof fell in.
When you or your family lived in Denver for years and watched this masterpiece of crony capitalism flounder along, to end up gasping out on the prairie where it was at the time 20 miles from town, guess what, a lot of people started calling it DOA in mockery because from the start the project was as popular as the California high-speed rail and Mayor Pena was not. I know it is officially DIA.
Stapleton really had to go. Too much city all around. But the new airport site was about as inconvenient as possible for the metro area and, as predicted, gets bogged by snowstorms so far out on the prairie. Would you believe, it could have been some sweetheart land deal.
Ah Wellington Webb, the mayor after -- Pena? He cut a few Gordian knots to finally get DOA going after a long series of ridiculous boondoggles with the German luggage system. First snowstorm and the avant garde roof fell in.
I hate to break it to you, but the airport is not, in fact, named DOA. Swing and a miss.
When you or your family lived in Denver for years and watched this masterpiece of crony capitalism flounder along, to end up gasping out on the prairie where it was at the time 20 miles from town, guess what, a lot of people started calling it DOA in mockery because from the start the project was as popular as the California high-speed rail and Mayor Pena was not. I know it is officially DIA.
Thanks for the history lesson and local insight!
That airport development was quite a saga.
Roger that. I flew into the old airport (Stapleton) once. Then DIA opened in 95.
Stapleton really had to go. Too much city all around. But the new airport site was about as inconvenient as possible for the metro area and, as predicted, gets bogged by snowstorms so far out on the prairie. Would you believe, it could have been some sweetheart land deal.