Airports opening "cellphone lots"

A few airports are starting to open "cellphone lots" — free short-term parking for those kind souls/suckers who've gotten roped into picking their friends up from the airport. With all the worries about terrorism, airport security doesn't want people parking curbside anymore or circling endlessly, so the ideas is that these are lots where drivers can kill time while they wait for that call to come by the terminal for a pickup. Surprisingly, this isn't very commonplace, but more airports are adding them. Note: try not to get tricked into picking anyone up at Philadelphia International; they don't have one of these lots, and a spokesman there encouraged drivers to just "spring for a spot " in their exorbitantly priced garage.

[Via Textually.org]