But the system could support only half of the inspection booths normally used, Mr. Fleming said.
Spread along arrival Concourses A and B, and above the passport inspection booths in the Immigration and Naturalization Service hall, these large, permanent installations give passengers something to think about as they prepare to enter New York, even the United States, for the first time, perhaps to stay for the rest of their lives.
Loads of extra agents were on hand, but they had to share the same six inspection booths in use before the attacks.
For personal vehicles, a drive-through border crossing is proposed to allow a driver to obtain immigration and customs checks via the vehicle inspection booths without getting off the car.
In contrast to roadways, where lanes segregate vehicles, and motion is well controlled by inspection booths; channels, inlets, and rivers present chaotic traffic patterns populated by vessels of all sizes.
Now that Moroun has forced the GSA into accepting this "gift" of four new inspection booths he spent $2 million to build, he recently persuaded the feds to pay him back.
Atlanta's airport was selected for the first full-fledged test in part because of its wide variety of international flights and its extra inspection booths, which were built for the 1996 Olympics.
The General Services Administration had commissioned three additional inspection booths, but construction wasn't complete and there were complications: Moroun owned the underlying land, and he had been bickering with the GSA over lease terms.
Inspection of a booth with a sign saying, "Win an Island in the 1,000 Islands".
