New airports' security powerful, subtle
18.06.2008 10:01
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- Source: toledoblade.com
INDIANAPOLIS - Nine luggage scanners that $1 million each wait beneath the new terminal, poised to check for explosives at a combined rate of 3,600 bags an hour. Short concrete posts guard the main doors. The front windows are of glass that folds like a drape when broken rather than explodes into shards. All these are features of the $1.1 billion terminal at Indianapolis International Airport, scheduled to open this fall. New and renovated airports have poured millions of dollars into safety upgrades since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, adopting precautions ranging from the most secure place for parking garages to more efficient security checkpoints. "We like to say around here that the best kind of security is the security that you can't see," said Ken Capps, vice president of public affairs for the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, which opened a new international terminal in 2005. In Indianapolis, those steps also include a 240-foot-wide strip of lawn between the front entrance of the terminal and the five-story parking garage. 
Indianapolis’ five-story parking garage is being built more than 300 feet from the terminal to conform with federal law.
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