[Leaning Right]

I suppose I’m in the minority here. But I’m impressed by the structure, as it would make an excellent landing strip for really small airplanes.

[George from New England]

75 years ago they would have just filled it all in with a few underpasses for roads and tubes for water ways.

[jacknhoo]

Yeah, it’s about 600 ft longer than our aircraft carriers.

[Publius]

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

[steve86]

A Cessna 172 Skyhawk could operate off that “runway” (If surface is smooth and suitable) but more than a few have failed to clear obstacles with even more runway depending on loading, ambient temperature, wind conditions, etc. So safer to go with a STOL configuration and tundra tires in case you need to bounce off the terrain past the end of the runway a time or two.

[Jeff Chandler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qBj8YsyvhQ

[Colorado Doug]

It looks like a lot more sense was used building the tracks to the right of this boondoggle.

[CMS]

No way THAT cost $11 billion dollars to make. At LEAST half of that money went to corruption and bribery