Four Bay Area airports will receive millions of dollars in funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for runway improvements and other repairs, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.
San Francisco International Runway will receive more than $14.6 million for runway reconstruction, while Oakland International Airport will receive about $3.5 million for taxiway, apron and service road repairs.
Buchanan Field Airport in Concord is receiving $3.78 million for runway and lighting improvements, while Livermore Municipal Airport will receive $291,397 for taxiway reconstruction, according to the Department of Transportation.
Marina Municipal Airport in Monterey County also received $1.39 million to extend a taxiway.
The money is part of $477 million in airport infrastructure grants that are the third allotment of $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program funding nationwide.
Let’s see, it will take at least one year to receive the funding, one year to (re)asses the damage, two years of bidding and another year of pointing fingers on unfair bidding. By then most of the money will somehow be missing. So they will only be able to repair one airport runway. The citizens will then be directed to blame it all on the California hating president.
Great, Buchanan needs support. Hopefully more short commerical flights can fly out of Buchanan relieving air and vehicle traffic at Oakland and SFO.
what’s going to happen with Buchanan Golf Course?
I can’t believe Mark DeSaulnier is not taking credit this ?
Give him time; I’m sure he’ll be issuing a “statement” any minute.
“San Francisco International Runway” sounds like a club in the Castro. Methinks you meant San Francisco International Airport.
I’m counting five airports mentioned in the article.
Monterey is not considered a “Bay Area Airport.”
My mistake, I misread that as “Marin” county.
I couldn’t figure out why that one was mentioned, myself.