{"id":12562,"date":"2006-06-06T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/06\/opa-locka-airport-tower\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T22:26:00","slug":"opa-locka-airport-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/06\/opa-locka-airport-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Opa-locka Airport &#8220;Tower&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/breaking_news\/14741940.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/opa-locka_tower.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" alt=\"Opa-locka Airport Tower\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>The Miami Herald<\/i> reports that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Miami-Dade County and the FAA negotiated for years over how to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/breaking_news\/14741940.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Opa-locka Airport&rsquo;s control tower<\/a>. Now controllers are working in a trailer while a new tower is built.<\/p>\n<p>For the next three years, Opa-locka Airport&rsquo;s control tower will be a trailer perched atop cargo containers welded together. Controllers must climb a ladder to get inside. And the tower is only 33 feet off the ground, meaning controllers can&rsquo;t see the entire airfield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the best quote of all is: &ldquo;This is not a tower that meets any code whatsoever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/aviation\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">aviation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/engineering\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114963286154197002?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Herald reports that: Miami-Dade County and the FAA negotiated for years over how to replace Opa-locka Airport&rsquo;s control tower. Now controllers are working in a trailer while a new tower is built. For the next three years, Opa-locka Airport&rsquo;s control tower will be a trailer perched atop cargo containers welded together. Controllers must &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/06\/opa-locka-airport-tower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opa-locka Airport &#8220;Tower&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}