Denver Airport Is a Model for Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
How a “boondoggle” turned into an economic boon for Colorado.
Colorado’s real gold mine.
Photographer: Peter Scott BartaAnyone among the two-thirds of Americans who approve of President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan for infrastructure investment probably knows somebody in Denver, or catches a nonstop flight from its 25-year-old international airport to somewhere in North America, Asia, Europe or South America. Flying to Paris for the weekend is the latest Denver connection.
DIA, the only major new U.S. airport since the 1974 completion of Dallas-Fort Worth, was the largest public-works project in Colorado history. It is the largest airport in geographical size in the U.S., and No. 3 in the world. It led the Department of Transportation's measure of domestic origin-and-destination traffic last year for the first time.