AIRLINE: That makes is $117,647 and five cents for every foot and one must also factor in runway lights, markers, and perhaps landscaping/drainage and, oh yes, a parallel taxi way to the active! Pretty expensive runway. I'm sure they wish that they had built it years ago. In '97 I stayed at the Holiday Inn and of course, Alaska Airlines every five minutes screaming by! There are some fairly old houses around there, so I suspect that someone representing them in this lawsuit. Hmmm! The only real winners so far are the lawyers! Mike Burris Cambridge, Mass --- Alireza Alivandivafa <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> wrote: > In a message dated 6/24/2003 4:20:32 PM Pacific > Daylight Time, > yul@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > << I learned once either here on this board or > elsewhere, > that a runway is about 4'-6' feet thick. Is this > new > runway for the larger jets? How long will it be? > I'm > guessing it might be over 8000 feet >> > > It will supposedly be about 8500