Reyesville - Updated Dec 12, 2014

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Wonderful cities and maps you have. Nice job!!

[david1314 44]

A Brief Rewrite of History - Airport c. 1961

As the (real) years went on, the airport has taken a central importance to the region and it's story. As such, I wanted a unique terminal building as something of a signature to the region. Therefore, I revisited my c. 1961 airport pictures (originally posted nearly 5 years ago), and updated them with the new terminals.

The South Terminal (double clam shell) was designed to give a grand welcome to arriving passengers and to take advantage of the low-angle northern sun. The building has only a very small ventilation system as the building mostly maintains its temperature by design. The concrete clam shells are also designed to effectively handle the common heavy rains and occasional snow storm.

As transpacific stopover traffic grew at the airport, so to did other traffic. The North Terminal building was built in 1961 to accommodate growing passenger numbers. Its design welcomes passengers to interact with aircraft with unobstructed views of most of the airport's operation from it's main (second) floor. Passengers descend stairs to doors to the tarmac to board flights.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Nice photo touch-up there, very clever.

[david1314 44]

Kersanova / Newport / North Cross
These three towns saw the first true suburban development of the Reyesville metro area (and indeed the whole nation of Pacific Columbia generally). The cities were planned with the intent of providing a labor force to the (previously yet to be established) city of Newport.

North Cross was established as a ferry landing and fishing village on the North Bank of the Lydian River where the [Green Fork] river joined the estuary. It served to connect the north of the country to Reyesville and the inland areas served via Lydian. The small coastal town has since been eclipsed by its industrial presence on the hills to the west and the suburban residential neighborhoods to the north. It is also the site of the new naval docks after the closure of the SoEaDo Naval Station and two others just north of Reyesville.

Kersanova is originally a Russian settlement, but little history remains except in the name. Originally 'New Kursk' or Kursknovask, current city signage reflects the contemporary name; though, colloquially it is also known as Kersey. It is characterized by it's high bridges (and tolls) and the bluff overlooking the Lower Green Canyon. Today, the town is mostly a wealthy suburb with most residents commuting by car over the new Lariette Bridge over the Lydian river to Reyesville.

Newport is, unsurprisingly, the new port in the region. With the consolidation of port operations and larger ships, the small disparate ports of the Lydian Estuary coast (including Reyseville / SoEaDo) have become obsolete. Furthermore, the advent of the container ship made construction of a new port area a necessity. Rather than improve the ultimately inadequate facilities existing in the region, the national government opted to construct an entirely new port. The port includes a pleasure marina in the far north of the area, and (working down the coast), the first container births (which could accommodate 3 large vesels or up to 5 smaller ones), refined oil storage (which had been exported from the resource rich north, refined, and returned as fuel and other oil products), various break/bulk docks, the auto delivery docks, two births that had been planned a break/bulk but were ultimately abandoned, navy oil dock, and finally the navy docks themselves (the last two actually within the city of North Cross). A very suburban town had developed to the immediate northwest of the port.

A new landfill island (shown in the map below) will be used to increase container and inter modal capacity with 5 additional berths.

Overview



Picture Map:

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I just love the hilly terrain with those squiggly roads built right onto it, it just looks amazing.  Every picture has something interesting to look at, not the least of which is that incredibly organic road network.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

I second what has been said above- those windy roads are really cool!

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Nice airport you did

[mayorbk 66]

Great to see another member return. Your hilly cities with a gritty, dated '60s-70s look to them gives this CJ a unique character. Keep up the wonderful work!