WASHINGTON −President Donald Trumpand Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy saidduring a Cabinet meeting Dec. 2they plan to overhaul Dulles International Airport near DC, which they said was poorly designed.
Trump complimented the terminal designed by Eero Saarinen. But he and Duffy said the rest of the airport is a mess that must be improved.
"We're also going to rebuild Dulles airport because it's not a good airport," Trump said. "They have a great building and a bad airport."
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Trump and Duffy didn't detail how the airport would be changed. Moving or adding runways, for example, is an incredibly complicated process that can take years and cost billions of dollars.
"We're going to turn that around," Trump added. "We're going to make Dulles airport serving Washington and Virginia, Maryland, etcetera into something really spectacular. We have an amazing plan for it."
Duffy said an initial step being announced Dec. 2 is a request for bids to improve shuttle buses called "people movers,"after a crash of one of the vehicles Nov. 10. Eighteen people were taken to the hospital after one of the vehicles struck a dock at the airport.
"It's not a great airport, which we can make great in this administration," Duffy said.
"We have a design that is amazing for Dulles," Trump said. "It was a badly designed airport. We're going to make it as good as there is in the country."
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Trump calls Dulles airport 'badly designed,' plans to overhaul it
