Trump is set to announce a $22B makeover of Dulles airport that will eliminate the 'people movers'

President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy are expected to announce plans Wednesday for a $22.5 billion overhaul of Dulles International Airport. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected Wednesday to announce a $22 billion renovation of Washington Dulles International Airport that will end the use of the widely disliked “people movers," the mobile lounges that have been used for decades… Among other undertakings, he has plans to build a new White House ballroom along with a towering triumphal arch near the Lincoln Memorial.In place of the people movers, the airport will add a new passenger train and more moving walkways, and the parking lot will be moved closer to the main terminal, according to a White House official who shared details of the Republican president's plan under condition of anonymity before an announcement.Trump will announce his plans at an Oval Office event Wednesday afternoon alongside Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.Dulles, located in northern Virginia, is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from downtown Washington and run by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which also operates Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The project will be financed by the airports authority and the airlines serving Dulles, the White House official said.Dulles is one of three airports that serve the Washington region. Dulles is the primary international airport serving the region although Baltimore Washington International Airport, which is farther away than Dulles, also offers overseas flights. Reagan National is the most convenient of the three airports, which makes it popular with members of Congress and local residents, but it primarily handles domestic flights.Trump said in December that Dulles needs to be redesigned because “it's not a good airport.”The president, a former real estate developer, said back then that the Dulles building was “incorrectly designed.” He nonetheless praised Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect and designer of the airport's main terminal.“We’re going to turn that around and we’re going to make Dulles airport -- serving Washington and Virginia, Maryland, etc.

-- we’re gonna make that into something really spectacular," Trump said at the Cabinet meeting in December. Planned overhaul forms part of president’s broader pattern of directing changes in Washington after arch and ballroomDonald Trump is due to announce a $22bn plan to rebuild Washington’s Dulles international airport on Wednesday after the US president personally weighed in on the design of the capital’s main international gateway.A White House official confirmed an announcement would be made, after CBS News reported that Trump had scrutinized 3D models from contractors competing to carry out the overhaul at the White House, and offered proposed changes.