Louis Armstrong International Airport is building a new parking lot where Uber and Lyft vehicles gather as they wait to be summoned by riders, a move airport officials hope will prevent traffic back-ups that occur at the entrance to the lot they use now.

The new lot, which will open in the next several weeks, will not fix the snarls that have vexed users of the arrivals curb, though members of the airport’s governing board said Thursday that a solution to that problem needs to be figured out soon.

Uber and Lyft vehicles currently share the same space with taxi cabs and the cellphone lot, where people wait for calls from travelers they are waiting to pick up. And when things get busy, these vehicles get backed up onto the road to the departures gate.

Once the new lot opens, Uber and Lyft drivers will have their own lot on the other side of the road from the existing lot, which will be for the cellphone lot and taxis.

Aviation Director Kevin Dolliole said Thursday that the new lot will help reduce problems that taxis, rideshare drivers and cellphone lot users have had getting into and out of the current lot.

People using the cellphone lot have reported being stuck there for more than 30 minutes, prohibited from leaving due to back-ups at the arrivals curb.

Dolliole said the airport is still considering its options to deal with that congestion, and board members voiced frustration with the situation at the arrivals curb, suggesting that it might be necessary to move Uber and Lyft pick-ups to another spot at the airport.

“People coming to pick up passengers here can’t get to the airport because of the rideshares,” board member Doug Thornton said. He said he frequently travels to Los Angeles, where rideshare users are now shuttled from the arrivals curb to another location.

“Before they did that, it would take you 30 minutes to go a quarter mile when you were picking someone up or dropping someone off,” he said. “The congestion was so bad. So you have to deal with Uber and Lyft; We have to deal with this.”

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“At heavy times it’s ridiculous how hard it is,” board member Todd Francis agreed. “I had someone picking me up and it took them 45 minutes just waiting to get through the traffic.”

Board member Ruth Kullman said congestion at the arrivals curb is the top concern from the people who contact her.