{"id":1110,"date":"2019-02-19T14:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2019-02-19T14:32:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:32:27","slug":"another-minor-rant-about-laguardia-airport-or-p-stands-for-level-at-lga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/2019\/02\/19\/another-minor-rant-about-laguardia-airport-or-p-stands-for-level-at-lga\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Minor Rant about LaGuardia Airport (Or, “P” stands for “Level” at LGA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve previously observed that LaGuardia airport is like a little island of the third world right here in the middle of the first — but that’s not really fair, because third-world airports are nicer than LGA.<\/p>\n

Now add the following question, which should be simple: If you park in a parking spot labeled “P4” before you leave, which button in the elevator do you press to get to your car when you return: P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, or P6?<\/p>\n

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Here’s where I parked…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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…but how to get back?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You’d be forgiven if you guessed P4, but you’d also be wrong. In my case, I parked in P4 and had to press P2! Only in LGA.<\/p>\n

You see, the “designers” of LGA decided to use “P” as the abbreviation for “parking area” and, astoundingly — unforgivably, really — also for “level.” (What, did they run out of letters?) So “P4” is the parking garage serving terminals C and D. But inside of P4 are six levels, which are called not “L1” to “L6” or “1” to “6” but, idiotically, “P1” to “P6.”<\/p>\n

Really. I can’t even imagine the discussion. They had a parking garage called “P4” with six levels, so the designers had to decide what to call the levels. Was there a meeting at which someone suggested, “How about L1 to L6,” but got shouted down? Did someone say, “Let’s use P to abbreviate everything at this airport?” Was someone reading an essay on design principles called “Don’t Let This Happen to You”? Was it a practical joke?<\/p>\n

I don’t get it.<\/p>\n

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A Woman Tries to Navigate LaGuardia Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you park in a spot labeled “P4,” do you press “P4” to get back to your car when you return? You’d think so. But at LGA…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[164,163],"section":[],"destination":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-laguardia","tag-lga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxumbraque.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}