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2 April 23, 2008 - 12:22pm | rfn
Seems rather foolish
to spend much more money on expanding a land-locked airport.
Might be better to get on with making a start on a new airport across the inlet, away from the congested airspace (Lake Hood, Merrill Field) and where enough land could be set aside to have not just long enough runways for the new generations of Mega-transports but also for ground facilities. Canada is already working toward a gigantic new airport intended to make Ted Stevens Airport obsolete. They have a pretty good leg-up with nearby port facilities and a planned railroad extension to create a true intermodal hub.
With the AK railroad already poised to lay track to Port McKenzie and money available for port building (why expand an old one when a new one can be done more easily on readily available land?), isn't this the time to be looking ahead more than six months?
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