Additional $500,000 grant to Waco Regional Airport for Safety Improvement

Click here to see an article about improvements to the Waco Regional Airport. I had questions about what was going to be done. This pretty much describes it.


http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-us-federal-government/14204899-1.html


Highlights:

1. The Waco Regional Airport will receive an additional $500,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Airport Improvement Program.
2. The alpha taxiway will be separated from the two other taxiways. As it is now, planes must make a hard left or hard right at a certain time or risk going on the wrong taxiway. 
3. Add air conditioning and ground power units to the passenger-loading bridge - This eliminates the need for large generators on the ramps now used to cool airplanes during boarding and deboarding.
4. Some overhead utilities in the runway safety areas also will be relocated underground on the airport's two runways to keep them from interfering with approaching airplanes.

The airport received $13.1 million in federal funds last year for major runway improvements and safety enhancements. That funding will be used to extend the airport's main runway by 500 feet, rehabilitating both runways and regrading runway safety areas. Those improvements are expected to be completed by 2011.