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October 21, 2014

Biden touts plan to fix ‘3rd World' U.S. airports

  • There will be a design competition to update New York's two airports and expand two others to relieve pressure on Kennedy and LaGuardia.
  • By JONATHAN LEMIRE
    Associated Press

    NEW YORK — Vice President Joe Biden, who infamously dubbed New York City's outdated LaGuardia Airport “a third-world country,” joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a news conference Monday to tout plans to improve the region's airports.

    Biden, the White House's loudest voice on the need to update the nation's crumbling infrastructure, was gently teased by Cuomo, who announced a design competition to modernize John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports as well as two lesser-known suburban airports.


     
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