Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2006 (18. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)
2006-06-02 / 23. szám
„Lot Full" at Burbank's Bob Hope Airport Burbank has always been my favorite airport, perhaps because it’s so close to where we live and so easy to get to. Perhaps because it offers the easiest way to get to Las Vegas. It could be its size - so small and cozy and uncomplicated. Especially since they have introduced electronic tickets and even check-in from home. Compared to a huge monstrum like LAX, Burbank is a traveler’s dream. And then there is Southwest, the airline that makes it fun to fly and easy to accumulate points for a free trip. / love the little airport of Burbank, recently re-named after Bob Hope! Of course I haven’t tried to park there in the past few years because there was always someone to drop me off. There is a lot of talk about parking becoming increasingly difficult there. Recently the L.A. Times discussed the problem in great detail. - j -LOS ANGELES Passengers at Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport this summer may have to park in Van Nuys. With a record number of travelers expected through September, officials expect they will run out of parking and have asked Los Angeles if they can use its Van Nuys park-and-ride lot.Burbank airport operators acknowledge that advising customers to park several miles away may cancel out the reason they patronize the airfield in the first place. “It’s inimical to our typical Burbank customer profile,” said Victor Gill, an airport spokesman. “They want the convenience of Burbank airport; they don’t want to remote-park and take a shuttle.” The parking problem is a symptom of the crowding forecast for the region’s four mid-size airports this summer as they continue to siphon flights and passengers away from aging Los Angeles International Airport. Long Beach Airport has outgrown its Art Deco terminal, which now is used only for ticketing. Two temporary trailers that act as boarding lounges are at capacity. This summer, passengers can expect to sit outside as they await their flights. “Come July, we will have some challenges with seating,” said Sharon Diggs-Jackson, a spokeswoman for Long Beach Airport. Ontario International Airport and John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana also expect record-setting passenger levels, though operators there say they have space to accommodate them. Southern California’s regional airports are victims of their own success. Passengers flocked to the smaller airfields after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to avoid long lines at LAX. Then low-cost carriers chose to place more flights at the suburban outposts. Taken together, these factors helped regional facilities serve 30.4% of the region’s passengers in 2005, compared to 24% in 2001. LAX, meanwhile, handled 69.6% of the Southland’s travelers last year, down from 76% in 2001. The shift is subtle, but it means big crowds and long lines in Burbank, Long Beach, Ontario and Santa Ana, where passengers used to be able to arrive an hour before a flight, park and sail through security to their gates. No more. “When you’re moving toward decentralization ... you have to worry about what the impacts will be on the secondary airports,” said Steven Erie, a UC San Diego political science professor who has studied the region’s airports. “You’re starting to see it; parking is one of the first things to be hit.” Parking is already scarce at Burbank. On a recent Saturday, the economy lot was full by 7 a.m., leading attendants to place a rectangular sign reading “Lot Closed” and orange cones in the entrance. Several other lots soon filled up too. At Lot A, dozens of unsuspecting drivers showed up, some pulling over to ask attendants where they could park before turning around and racing away. Others cursed through open windows, saying they were already short on time. “This is happening more often because we’re the cheapest,” said Linda Prescott, a parking attendant at Lot A, which charges $7 a day — contrasted with $11 a day in Lot D, to which passengers were redirected. As spaces periodically opened up, attendants removed cones and shuttle drivers gave motorists precise directions to a spot before following them into the lot for personal service. Capistrano Beach trade show manager Luann Alesio was one of the lucky ones. After pulling her car to the side of the access road to Lot A and waiting for 20 minutes, she got a rare vacant space. “I could do that because I had some extra time,” said Alesio, a frequent flier who was traveling to Chicago to visit her boyfriend and then to Orlando for work. “But if I had to go to another lot, with me being gone for 2 1/2 weeks, it would really add up.” That’s precisely the problem. Carriers have added more long-haul flights at Burbank, leading passengers to occupy the airport’s 6,500 parking spots for longer periods. If travelers can’t find a space in an economy lot, they have to pay more for a space in a private lot or for the airport’s valet or short-term parking offerings. Private lots across the street from the airport, including the Hilton Hotel and Carter’s VSP Parking, also are seeing their slots fill up more quickly and for longer periods. “In the last year or two, the turnover isn’t as much,” said Greg Murphy, a general manager at Carter’s VSP, adding that now about 400 of his 600 spaces are full in the morning, compared with 200 several years ago. “People are staying longer; instead of one or two days, they’re staying for three or four days,” he said. June 6, 2006 Primary Election Governor Republican - Arnold Schwarzenegger Democrat - Steve Westley Lieutenant Governor Republican - Tom McClintock Democrat - John Garamendi Attorney General - Rocky Delgadillo Sheriff - Lee Baca County Supervisor - 3rd District - Zev Yaroslavsky Sheriff Lee Baca has always been a good friend of the Hungarian community. He and Attorney Andrew Friedman were the guests of the Hungarian Government and conducted a number of lectures pertaining to Homeland Security and public safety. Orbán Re-Elected, Quotes Mein Kampf (The Budapest Sun) Although opposition leader Viktor Orbán announced he would offer his resignation after the second round of the general elections in April, the center-right Fidesz party’s special congress re-elected him party leader as well, along with his four deputies, MTI reported. Last weekend more than 1,800 delegates met behind closed doors and finally confirmed, by a two-thirds majority, a vote of confidence for Orbán and his deputies. In addition to those four (Zoltán Pokorni, Pál Schmitt, Mihály Varga and Ildikó Gáli Pelczné) and Orbán himself, the board now includes the national board chair László Kövér and parliamentary group leader Tibor Navracsics. According to Navracsics, the real question earlier was whether Orbán would block changes within Fidesz or not. In his opinion, Orbán would not want to obstruct the drive for change within the party because “the past three years have shown that he himself was the motor of change within the party.” After the vote of confidence, Navracsics added that Orbán would be the most attractive personality on the political landscape in 2010, as far as voters were concerned. Before talking about future plans, Orbán said that 87% of the delegates voted in favor of the current chair and his deputies. He announced that, as Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány had earlier been “misled” about the state of the economy, Fidesz would now ask three economists, such as Péter Ákos Bod, Tamás Mellár and Gabriella Vukovics, to prepare an assessment of Hungary’s current economic situation in order to “learn who was responsible for this.” “Hate is the most fundamental human feeling, politics have to be based on hate and the enemy has to be destroyed through hate. The politics of MSzP is based exactly on this in order to destroy Fidesz,” said Orbán, quoting Hitler’s Mein Kampf at his party’s congress, commercial TV station TV2 reported. According to Péter Szijjártó, a Fidesz MP, Orbán was quoting a newspaper article, which in turn quoted Hitler, when explaining that hate politics is present in Hungary. PM Gyurcsány responded saying, “It is a brutal thing to mention the Hungarian Socialist Party and Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf in one sentence.” Brody's Mom Says Farewell to Birthplace DUNA Travel 8530 Holloway Dr. #102 W. Hollywood, CA 90069 SPECIÁLIS ÁR LAX-BUD-LAX $566.-tól +TX. Információért hívják ZSUZSÁT TEL: (310) 652-5294 FAX: (310) 652-5287 1-888-532-0168 Június 2,2006 ÍD AMERIKAI Ufa gyár Hírlap The English Page of the Hírlap can serve as a bridge between the non-Hungarian-speaking members of the family and the community. Use it to bring people together! Subscribe to the Hírlap! Advertise your business in the Hírlap! If any questions or suggestions, please call (323) 463-6376 The title of Sylvia Plachy’s book of photographs, which received a Golden Light award for best book in 2004, is Self Portrait with Cows Going Home. It is also the title of a showing in the Óbuda exhibition house of the Budapest Galéria. The mother of Oscar-winning actor Adrian Brody, Plachy is probably better known in New York than her native Hungary. She started photographing in 1964, on a journey back to eastern Europe, and, later on, her mentors included André Kertész. She became an accomplished photo artist who had her own column in The Village Voice: every week for eight years the magazine published an uncaptioned, black and white photograph by her under the heading Sylvia Plachy’s Unguided Tour. The series of photographs was later published as a book with the same title. Plachy calls this collection “a farewell to my long attachment to my birthplace.” More than 40 years of pictures, with photos taken from family albums, make up a beautiful and profound goodbye. AMERICAN Hungarian Journal
