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Federal funds speeding up taxiway work at Springs airport |
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Federal funds speeding up taxiway work at Springs airport
September 14, 2009 4:29 PM | WAYNE HEILMAN | The Gazette
The Colorado Springs Airport will receive a $7.2 million grant from the U.S. Transportation Department to accelerate rebuilding three key taxiways that are used with its longest runway, cutting the project’s completion time by about half, airport officials said.
The latest grant, along with $6.28 million in stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will help continue rebuilding work on a taxiway that parallels the airport’s east runway and two other taxiways between the first one and the airport’s passenger terminal. The airport hopes to finish rebuilding all of its taxiways within three to five years, said Mark Earle, the city’s aviation director.
“This is an important part of multiyear project to improve the taxiway association with our major air carrier runway,” Earle said in a press release from Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., on the grant. The two grants will “speed up the work and create jobs in the region.” Without the grants, Earle estimated the project would take 10 to 12 years to complete.
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